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Lynn Vavreck is a brilliant political scientist from whom I’ve learned a great deal and from whom I still hope to learn much. However, I do hope Democrats do not…

A set of New York Times/Kaiser Family Foundation polls on Southern Senate races and ObamaCare created quite a brouhaha last week, eliciting a level of vitriol not seen since the “unskewers”…

It’s a refrain that troubles me: “Nobody likes paying taxes.” Especially for people like me who never served in the military, taxes are the contribution we make to our country,…

Everybody — members, scholars, pundits and the public — agrees Congress is screwed up. People are, well, polarized about why, however. Many offer what I call the “socializing hypothesis,” identifying…

Few things excite pundits more than the prospect of a “throw the bums out” election, where citizens finally rise up and defeat the legislators they disdain. Commentators regularly predict it.…

My column last week on independents who lean toward a party ignited a (tiny) controversy. Some of those who questioned my argument asked questions like “Are independents independent?” and “Are…

My friends at Third Way were kind enough to cite this column in attacking my oft-stated warning that most independents are not as independent as they claim, a fact that…

It’s way too early to say anything useful about the 2016 presidential election. But that’s not stopping anyone else, so I might as well chime in too. As long as…

One need look no further than the minimum wage to find evidence that Republicans are wildly out of touch. A year ago, every single Republican member of the House voted…

Having a right is not the same thing as being in the right. In some instances, we have the right to behave immorally. For example, the First Amendment gives some…