Eloquent Obama and bombastic Trump certainly have different speaking styles. But a big data analysis of their speeches also shows a surprising commonality.
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Misleading stereotypes help explain why the share of families living in poverty who benefit from a core assistance program has plummeted – and why Trump wants new cuts.
Mitch McConnell gets a win, and the Republican efforts to repeal Obamacare will be debated in the Senate.
It turns out a unified government isn’t enough to get bills passed.
Ousting an executive leader from office doesn’t always have the intended effect, as these examples from Central and South America show.
Congress is trying to curb the president’s ties to human rights abusers, harkening back to landmark legislation of the 1970s.
Specialty prescription drugs are responsible for countless medical miracles, but their high price tag is the main reason health care costs are out of control.
GOP lawmakers say their bills to replace the Affordable Care Act would do a better job than the ACA of controlling rising health care costs, but 40 years of deregulation show it just won’t work.
The tax changes Trump and GOP lawmakers propose would reduce charitable giving, research suggests. But letting everyone use a tax break mostly enjoyed by the rich might prevent that.
A historian takes us beyond the noise in Washington and examines how US and Russian power and interests compare.
Laws that limit presidential power won’t enforce themselves – Congress must act.
But there’s little evidence the high spending changed any minds, says a political scientist who lives in the district.
Research shows that context matters for understanding what a person’s words mean – especially when power dynamics are involved.
The rule of law can take on different meanings depending whom you ask and where you are – but in the US it pretty much means one thing.
Hawaii was the last state to join the Union. It didn’t happen without a lot of political dealmaking.
Hoover abused his power as FBI director to serve presidents’ interests. The reforms that followed were set up to prevent it from happening again.
For-profit corporations are deeply embedded in US national security infrastructure – and they’re not going anywhere.
The first two Muslim-American women are in Congress now. They stand in a long and little-known tradition of Islam in America.
The race pitted a singing cowboy against a millionaire software entrepreneur – and it got ugly at the end.
How have state firearm laws changed over time? Over the past 27 years, some states have loosened the rules for gun owners and the gun industry, while others are getting stricter.
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Distinguished Fellow in Law and Government, Dickinson Law, Penn State
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Part-Time Professor of Economics, The New School
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Professor American Politics, Political Science, Georgia State University
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Visiting Professor of the Practice of Political Science and Public Policy, Brown University
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Associate Professor of Political Science, Rochester Institute of Technology
