The past two months have seen significant electoral wins for the Democratic Party – first in Virginia and New Jersey, and now in last week’s special senate election in Alabama. Nathaniel A. Birkhead writes that the Democratic Party may be well positioned for the 2018 Congressional midterm elections if it keeps up its recently successful tactics: focusing on increasing […]
Our understanding of how Congress works has been shaped by the laws it enacts. But what about the laws which it repeals? In new research, Jordan M. Ragusa and Nathaniel A. Birkhead develop a comprehensive database of major Congressional repeals over more than 130 years. They find that repeals ‘spike’ when the majority party is united, and after it […]
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Book Review: The Death of Asylum: Hidden Geographies of the Enforcement Archipelago by Alison Mountz
Hundreds of scholars have signed a statement defending the international institutions that Trump has attacked
Ayşe Işın Kirenci reviews The New Age of Empire: How Colonialism and Racism Still Rule the World by Kehinde Andrews
Matt Bluemink reviews What Do We Know and What Should We Do About Fake News? by Nick Anstead
Kyle Scott reviews Meddling in the Ballot Box: The Causes and Effects of Partisan Electoral Interventions by Dov H. Levin 
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