Tag: Nancy Pelosi
3 reasons the House GOP is not any more dysfunctional than...
David R. Jones, Baruch College, CUNY
For many observers, a key takeaway from the recent leadership struggle in the...
Just over 1 in 4 members of Congress in 2023 will...
Laurel Elder, Hartwick College
When the 118th Congress convenes on Jan. 3, 2023, the number of women among its...
Biden gives Congress his vision to ‘win the 21st century’ –...
Karrin Vasby Anderson, Colorado State University; Ivory A. Toldson, Howard University, and Veronika Dolar, SUNY Old Westbury
President Joe...
It’s not just Trump – presidents and politicians have long shredded...
Maurizio Valsania, Università di Torino
Donald Trump has achieved something unique: He is the first and only president to...
3 ways $2 trillion for infrastructure can fight inequality too
Steven Pressman, Colorado State University
Imagine you have US$2 trillion to spend on patching up America’s crumbling roads, levees and other infrastructure. What would you...
The shutdown took so long to end because it became a...
Timothy Ryan, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Andrew W. Delton, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York), and Peter DeScioli,...
Nancy Pelosi victorious – why the California Democrat was reelected speaker...
Kathryn L. Pearson, University of Minnesota
Despite some brash and not insignificant opposition, California’s Nancy Pelosi is returning to her previous role as speaker of...
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...