Tag: GOP
The two-party system is here to stay
Alexander Cohen, Clarkson University
The American two-party system has long been besieged. Many of the founders feared that organizing people along ideological lines would be...
Only 1 out of 36 newly elected female representatives in Congress...
Malliga Och, Idaho State University and Shauna Shames, Rutgers University
The 116th Congress will be the most diverse in U.S. history: 126 women will take...
Republican women are just fine, thank you, with being Republican
Christine A. Kray, Rochester Institute of Technology; Hinda Mandell, Rochester Institute of Technology, and Tamar Carroll, Rochester Institute of Technology
Republican women have faced 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...
Shutdown under a unified government? Blame Trump
Jennifer Victor, George Mason University
Government shutdowns are rare.
This one is unique because the U.S. has never before experienced a shutdown under a unified...
Before Breitbart, there was the Charleston News and Courier
Sid Bedingfield, University of Minnesota
Conservatives who dislike Donald Trump like to blame the president and his Breitbart cheering section for the racial demagoguery they...
Kris Kobach and Kansas’ SAFE Act
Chelsie Bright, Mills College
If you want to understand President Donald Trump’s voter fraud commission, it helps to study what happened in Kansas.
Six years...
Why some are applauding Donald Trump Jr’s ‘win at all costs’...
Daniel M. Shea, Colby College
To many, the revelation that Donald Trump Jr. was anxious to get dirt on Hillary Clinton from the Russians will...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
