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It was a bad week for unwritten rules. What does this mean?

The decline of norms has become a common criticism of Trump era politics. The violation of unwritten rules ties together some of the developments in what was an eventful week in American politics. The Iowa caucuses failed to produce a clear result. The president gave a Medal of Freedom to […] Read more »

Mitt Romney: Religion, Representation, and His Vote to Impeach President Trump

Mitt Romney made history the other day by being the first US Senator in history to vote against a president of his own party in a Senate impeachment trial. Given the religious language he used to explain why he chose to vote guilty on one impeachment article, many are curious […] Read more »

The Republican Party is white and Southern. How did that happen?

… With the exception of the short period of Reconstruction after the Civil War, the GOP was notoriously ineffective in the ex-Confederacy. The region was dominated by the Democratic Party from the late 1870s through the second half of the 20th century. Why the shift? Historians and political scientists traditionally […] Read more »

Trump Holds Key to Republican House Chances

Key Points• Democrats remain favored to hold the House, but it’s not hard to imagine what the GOP’s path to the majority would be.• Trump is crucial to that path: A highly-nationalized presidential election that devastates the roster of Democrats in Trump-won and marginal Clinton-won House seats would represent the […] Read more »