Last weekend’s mass shooting in El Paso has refocused the nation’s attention on the threat of white supremacism. … Over the past decade, right-wing extremist killings have outnumbered those by Islamist extremists about 3 to 1 in the United States. Yet while there is a widespread and bipartisan consensus that […] Read more »
What Both Sides Don’t Get About American Gun Culture
The two mass shootings this weekend have inflamed a gun-control debate that never seems to go away and never seems to get resolved. … The view of guns as neutral tools, a view shared by conservative defenders of gun rights as well as liberal advocates of gun regulation, misses a […] Read more »
Changing the Atmosphere in Political Science: Ten Key Political Questions about Climate Change
Climate change is arguably the most urgent problem facing humankind. It is not a single policy problem, but rather pervades all aspects of state and society – affecting everything from geopolitics to local planning. Yet, one is hard pressed to reach this conclusion given the current landscape of political science. […] Read more »
Channeling My Psychic Energy From Last Night’s Debate: The Key Takeaways
Beware the instant pundit analyses that declares “winners” and “losers.” … As my adage goes, there is the debate you saw, and then there’s the debate the pundits would have you believe you saw. Take everything your read on social media with a huge barrel of salt – many analysts […] Read more »
How top-two primaries encourage candidates to broaden their appeal to a wider range of voters
In the last 15 years Washington and California have implemented an electoral system called the top-two primary, which reformed the structure of primary and general elections in their states. Under this system, all candidates running for a given seat (aside from the presidency) run in the same primary election, regardless […] Read more »
The Heartland Is Moving in Different Directions
The Democrats’ ability to wrest back Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Iowa faces a steep hurdle. The population of the Rust Belt is aging at a much faster pace than the rest of the country. Exit polls show that people over the age of 50 put Donald Trump in the White […] Read more »