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Jordan Ragusa spells it out, including the shocking revelation that the Constitution doesn’t mention them!

As has been thoroughly documented on The Monkey Cage, Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) is no fan of the National Science Foundation’s funding of political science research.  Consider, for example, this: “Political science would be better left to pundits and voters,” said Don Tatro, Senator Coburn’s press secretary, in an interview. “Federal research dollars should go […]

One of these things is not like the other.

Election predictions focusing on Iowa’s economy miss the fact that it’s a long election season, and overall, our country’s economy isn’t that great.

We are delighted to welcome the following guest post from Patrick M. Morgan, the Tierney chair in global peace and conflict studies at the University of California Irvine.  Among others, he is a specialist on deterrence and a founding member of the Council on U.S. Korean Security studies. (Full disclosure: Pat is also my father […]

Andrew Sullivan passes on this amusing line from James Pethokoukis: We’ve had some eye-opening natural economic experiments: North and South Korea. East and West Germany. California and Texas. Enough is enough. I don’t quite see the parallel here. I’ve heard that North Korea isn’t such a fun place and neither was East Germany. But I’ve […]

BIlly Freeland writes: I recently came across a post you had in the NYT’s “Room for Debate” series, titled “Understanding Nonvoters.” I was wondering if you might be able to address a question I’ve had for a while. An organization called “Why Tuesday?” has proposed moving Election Day from Tuesday to Saturday and Sunday. This […]

In response to Michael Lewis-Beck’s guest post below, the New York Times Washington Bureau Chief David Leonhardt tweets: Conclusion seems either off or old. IA’s UE rate is still 6% & risen much less than US vs 12/07. There are two questions that I think pertain to the original NYT article Lewis-Beck was responding to.  […]

We are once again pleased to welcome back Professor Michael Lewis-Beck of the University of Iowa, with the following guest post suggesting that Iowa – far from being atypical in terms economic conditions – is actually the most “representative” state in the country in this regard! Before every presidential campaign, there is intense discussion over […]

As the world digests the deaths of Vaclav Havel and Kim Jong-Il, an interesting and unresolved questions is raised for observers of politics: how much influence does any one person ever really have over the evolution of politics in a country, a region, or even the whole global political systems? From our earliest days in […]