Politics has increasingly become a numbers game, with data-driven strategy the centerpiece of modern policymaking and messaging. The proliferation of polls, focus groups, and punditry is a testament to this reality.
The ways in which these metrics are...
The age-old adage that “history repeats itself” can pertain to everything from bad habits to global politics. But for Lauren Young, a political scientist in Yale's Faculty of Arts and Sciences who specializes in security and defense issues, the lessons...