December 5, 2012In this excerpt from Chapter Twelve of the Edwards' new book The Parties Versus the People: How to Turn Republicans and Democrats into Americans," Edwards partially attributes lack of compromise in American politics to a phenomenon called "Myside Bias".
October 19, 2012See a breakdown of how the bank accounts, toys and titans of our first Gilded Age compare to this one.
September 25, 2012Richard Hasen, author of the Election Law Blog, discusses truths and exaggerations on both sides of the voting rights debate.
September 21, 2012The contempt with which some wealthy Americans privately view those beneath them is actually an old story.
September 21, 2012How a pro-life political action group appropriated the name of the famous women's rights leader.
September 14, 2012A look at eight recent Supreme Court decisions decided by a single vote, and their consequences for democracy.
September 14, 2012Mitt Romney's choice of the rejected Supreme Court nominee as his Judicial Advisory Committee chairman raises eyebrows and concerns.
September 14, 2012What might life be like if we literally lived the way Americans did around the time our founding fathers drafted the Constitution?
September 14, 2012In this excerpt from Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer — and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class, authors Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson explain the significance of the Powell Memorandum, a call-to-arms for American corporations written by Virginia lawyer (and future U.S. Supreme Court justice) Lewis Powell to a neighbor working with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. In the fall of 1972, the venerable National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) made a ...
September 14, 2012An excerpt from Craig Unger's new book, framing Karl Rove as Republican Party kingmaker.
