Tag: Democrats
One-party rule in 49 state legislatures reflects flaws in democratic process
Nancy Martorano Miller, University of Dayton
Across the U.S., Republicans control 30 statehouses and the Democrats control 18. That is the largest number of one-party...
Your deeply held beliefs may just be wrong – 5 essential...
Naomi Schalit, The Conversation
Editor’s note: As we come to the end of the year, Conversation editors take a look back at the stories that...
Here’s how Trump-era politics are affecting worker morale – and what...
Wayne Hochwarter, Florida State University
Pundits are projecting this year’s midterm elections to be nasty, polarizing and “epic.”
They’re also expected to stress a lot of...
Millennials are so over US domination of world affairs
Bruce Jentleson, Duke University
Millennials, the generation born between 1981 and 1996, see America’s role in the 21st century world in ways that, as a...
Why are Democratic voters more approving of compromise than Republicans?
James Glaser, Tufts University and Jeffrey Berry, Tufts University
At a time when political division is heightened and the parties in Washington are deeply polarized,...
Why Florida Democrats can’t count on the so-called ‘black vote’
Sharon Austin, University of Florida
Florida’s midterm Senate election is a race to watch this November – and not just because it will be a...
Red state, blue state: How colors took sides in politics
David Scott Kastan, Yale University
When Americans hear some pundits projecting a “blue wave” in the 2018 midterm elections, they understand that this is a...
Will a federal government shutdown damage the US economy?
Scott R. Baker, Northwestern University
The federal government shut down for the first time in a little more than four years after Republicans and Democrats...
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Trump’s EPA decides climate change doesn’t endanger public health – the...
Jonathan Levy, Boston University; Howard Frumkin, University of Washington; Jonathan Patz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Vijay Limaye, University of Wisconsin-Madison
