Relations between the U.S. and China have been particularly tense for the last few years. Can one summit between Joe Biden and Xi Jinping significantly improve relations?
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Many years beyond the average American retirement age, politicians vie for power and influence. Their constituents tend to prefer they step back and pass the torch to younger people.
In the wake of the three-week internal GOP battle to choose a speaker, a scholar of Congress says that what looks like dysfunction is actually something else.
The House of Representatives is breaking norms and establishing a new way for the body to do business.
The status quo in terms of Canada’s protection of public officials is untenable and poses a serious risk to the country’s national security.
For decades, there were growing numbers of Democratic and Republican women in Congress, but the number of Republican women has stalled.
The hard-right of the Republican Party is exerting pressures on candidates to be the next speaker of the House.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has announced she will step aside from senior leadership. It could lead to generational change in the Democratic Party.
The rise in contemporary right-wing political extremism – and violence – can be traced back to events in the 1990s.
Welcome to an era of two parallel worlds in global business.
Visits by foreign law-makers to Taiwan are nothing new. So why did China react in such a heavy-handed manner to Nancy Pelosi’s recent visit?
Washington must continue to support Taiwan while seeking a better security dialogue with Beijing.
Beijing’s response to the visit by the US speaker has a lot do with internal Chinese politics.
While Chinese American voters are not a homogeneous group, many people who have ancestral ties to the region are unlikely to question their support for Nancy Pelosi just because of her Taiwan trip.
The US speak of the house’s visit to Taiwan has provoked more sabre-rattling from China, but neither China nor the US will want tensions to escalate further.
Chinese fighter jets buzzed the line separating China and Taiwan just hours before the US House speaker arrived on the island.
The White House has distanced itself from the US House speaker’s potential visit to Taiwan. But does it still signal a shift in policy over diplomatic ties with the island?
After years of gridlock, Congress passed significant gun control legislation for the first time in the last 30 years.
On the eve of public hearings held by Congress’ January 6 investigative committee, a former oversight staffer for the House of Representatives explains what such hearings aim to accomplish.
Framers of the Constitution put in a clause giving lawmakers immunity from liability for any ‘speech or debate.’ Interpreting it may be key in the battle to get some Republicans to testify.
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Visiting associate professor, Wayne State University
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Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Minnesota
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Professor of American Studies, University College Dublin
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Adjunct Professor of Politics and Director of Think Again, University of Virginia
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Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Professor of Public Theology and Director of The Bernardin Center, Catholic Theological Union
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Professor of International Politics, Clinton Institute, University College Dublin
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Professeur d'Histoire et civilisation US, Université Paris Cité
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Professor of American History, Università di Torino
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University Professor, Professor of International Relations and History, The Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University
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Principal Lecturer in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Professor, Department of Government, University of Essex
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William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science, Amherst College
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Professor of Communication and Journalism, Texas A&M University
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Visiting Professor of the Practice of Political Science and Public Policy, Brown University
