Tag: US House of Representatives
Why Congress needs to make child care more affordable – 5...
Taryn Morrissey, American University School of Public Affairs
Editor’s note: Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., and U.S. Rep. Bobby Scott, D-Va., recently reintroduced their Child Care...
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...
Why you should vote for a woman in 2018
Jeffrey Lazarus, Georgia State University and Amy Steigerwalt, Georgia State University
This year, women are poised to make great gains in congressional representation.
Across the country,...
‘Hot potato’ shows why workers won’t benefit from Trump’s corporate tax...
Steven Pressman, Colorado State University
Many children have played hot potato, a game in which they pass a spud to other children quickly so they...
How the US tax code bypasses women entrepreneurs
Caroline Bruckner, American University
As Republicans in Congress put the finishing touches on a tax plan that’s aimed at overhauling the system, there is one...
Most expensive race in House history turns out nearly 58 percent...
Jeffrey Lazarus, Georgia State University
I’m a political science professor living in Georgia’s Sixth House district, where Republican Karen Handel eked out a victory of...
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...
