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I probably shouldn’t tell you this: I deal partly in science, and the more science-y I make it look and sound, the more persuasive I am. I don’t know that…

"Running government like a business” is a mantra for many politicians, particularly Republicans. Two GOP governors who are trying to become president, Ohio’s John Kasich and Wisconsin’s Scott Walker, made…

Last week ended with a momentous Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage, while this week closes with the patriotism of the Fourth of July. I’m actually going to try to…

How do you expect voters would react to members of Congress supporting a bill that tramples on the rights of states and localities, creates a government bureaucracy to replace a…

No one — not the press, not the White House, nor anyone else — should have been truly surprised by the outcome of the House trade vote last week. Republicans…

Strange behavior has engulfed the Capitol over the last few weeks. Intense conflict remains over trade and NSA surveillance, but the alliances were not dictated exclusively by partisanship. The failure…

American politics has long navigated uneasily between two forms of democracy: Republicanism and mass, or direct, democracy. Journalist and labor leader J.W. Sullivan, whose 1893 book Direct Legislation by the…

Having not done British politics since the Concorde was flying, and being fully cognizant of the fact that others have spent those decades immersed in the subject, I had resolved…

As riots engulfed parts of Baltimore, and Americans everywhere were forced to confront police killings and other brutalities in minority communities, TV viewers and newspaper readers were exposed to a…

Years ago, I argued that opinions on gay rights generally, and same-sex marriage in particular, were changing faster than those on almost any subject in the history of polling. That…