It is a truism that politics makes for strange bedfellows, but there is evidence that it also makes for normal bedfellows.Research shows that married couples on average share similar political beliefs.Political scientists and sociologists have sought to...
When democracies fail, they often do so gradually at the hands of elected leaders who enjoy robust support from voters, according to Milan Svolik, associate professor of political science at Yale. In fact, since the 1990s, executive takeovers have...
Republicans in the United States Senate sought this week to revive their party’s effort to dismantle the Affordable Care Act (ACA). President Donald Trump has pressured congressional Republicans to follow through on their much-repeated promise to “repeal...
President Trump provided a stark reminder of the stakes of nuclear politics when he warned nuclear-armed North Korea to stop making threats or “be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen.”
North Korea’s acquisition of a nuclear bomb marks a...