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Obama’s recent call for government reorganization isn’t the first, and it definitely won’t be the last. 

Where are the larger-than-life athletes? “Psychologically, men and women are almost a different species” Libertarians in space

I don’t think “South Carolina politics” means what you think it means. 

Looking at American inequality through the lens of comparative politics.

The right is crowded in this primary cycle, and Romney has the Wall Street/Country Club wing of the party all to himself. 

Campaigns aren’t won by reciting facts, but that doesn’t mean that the truth can’t change minds in all circumstances. 

Without the Brownlow Committee, The West Wing would never have existed. Just let that sink in a moment. 

At the Gingrich town hall in Hudson this afternoon, a questioner told him that Romney supported indexing the minimum wage to inflation and then asked if Gingrich supported this. Gingrich: Are you sure that’s his position? Woman: Yes, I asked him on Sunday.  I can show you the video later. Gingrich: I would like that […]

I was lecturing about transitions to democracy today, and I mentioned that my colleague Adam Przeworski has argued that no country with a GDP above $6,000/per capita that becomes a democracy has later lost its status as a democracy. I noted that this was one of the few iron rules of politics that political scientists […]

Brendan Nyhan: However, journalists often exaggerate the effects of supposed over- or underperformance, in part by treating the conventional wisdom about how a candidate performed relative to expectations as some sort of objective fact rather than a social construction. (Note, for instance, how DiStaso’s report takes these expectations as given rather than attributing them to […]