Hill column  .

There’s a facile assumption abroad in the land that the two “outsider” presidential candidates in their respective parties, Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders, are different sides of the same coin,…

The first two nominating events of this election cycle, Iowa and New Hampshire, produced different winners in both parties. Why? It wasn’t an intervening event or an issue that played…

Last weekend, a leading conservative intellectual promised me Donald Trump would not win Iowa. “How can you be so sure?” I asked. “God,” he replied, “looks out for children, drunkards…

As polls pour out of early primary states, it’s worth examining just how complex and fragile those instruments are. Recently we’ve been treated to three polling autopsies that illustrate potential…

I19f Democrats and Republicans were holding their national primaries 12 days from now, on Feb. 1, we could predict each party’s nominee with relative confidence. Hillary Clinton enjoys a 16-point…

Since Donald Trump hasn’t forsaken his efforts to fan fear of Islam, I will pick up today’s column where I left off in December, examining more of the flaws in…

Donald Trump’s anti-Muslim demagoguery is the latest attempt to undermine the pluralism and diversity that are among America’s greatest strengths. To bolster their claims, demagogues frequently resort to pseudoscience, and…

In graduate school, our departmental T-shirts featured the titles of two books authored by distinguished faculty. The front asked “Who Governs?”, the title of Robert Dahl’s classic dissecting the nature…

Democrats and Republicans think differently about many issues. Republicans are more likely to oppose abortion and gay rights and less likely to support a government role in helping the poor…

On Saturday night, the International Association of Political Consultants bestowed its highest honor, the Democracy Medal, on a man serving a 14-year prison sentence. No, it was not confirmation that…