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.
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The news media spent a lot of time reporting on how much progressive Democrats and conservative Republicans didn’t like the debt ceiling deal. But centrists had enough votes to pass it in the House.
Women made gains in Congress this election cycle, but they are still underrepresented compared to their share of the population.
In the US, women politicians from minority communities have become the leading faces of a new generation of politicians – one that will drive the 2020 elections.
Difficult to pronounce, synecdoche is the form of rhetoric used by President Trump when he told four Democratic congresswomen of color to “go back” to the “corrupt” countries they came from.
President Donald Trump has appealed to his base by attacking four Democratic Congresswomen of colour.
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Professor, Department of Government, University of Essex
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Sharon D. Wright Austin is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor of Political Science, University of Florida
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Professor of Communication, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Chercheuse, spécialiste des Etats-Unis, Sciences Po
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Associate Professor of Political Science, Park University
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Professor of Political Science, Baruch College, CUNY
