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Republicans and Democrats alike claim their conventions provide a big economic boost to their host cities. What’s the evidence say?
Who will Trump and Clinton pick? Two political scientists say as long as the running mates aren’t as fiercely unpopular as the presidential candidates, it could boost the ticket.
We’ve been examining the ins and outs of TPP and the rise of the anti-trade right for months. Here’s a roundup of some of our coverage.
In 1872, free traders split with the young Republican Party, ran a third-party candidate against Ulysses S. Grant and sparked 100 years of GOP protectionism. Is history repeating itself?
Americans tend to agree inequality is a problem, but Democrats and Republicans have very different ideas about what is causing it and how to solve it.
There’s nothing as certain as death, taxes and a Republican with a plan to cut them. But how do the candidates’ proposals stack up?
South Carolina is a red state. The GOP candidates know that a win here can lead to the party nomination.
Republicans immediately labeled the president’s budget proposal dead on arrival, but the very nature of government means it remains very much alive.
The leading Republican candidate may seem out of step with his party’s platform when he lambasts free trade, but in fact the GOP has promoted protectionism for most of its history.
NH’s election laws allow people to vote in the primaries even if they are not registered with one of the parties. How pivotal are these unenrolled voters? We look beyond the exit polls for answers.
Some presidential candidates have compared Social Security to a Ponzi scheme. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Candidates sparred among themselves and the media but still managed to debate some of the key economic issues that matter most to Americans – though they ignored a few.
Republicans’ problem with the pope is not that he’s too liberal on issues such as capitalism, it’s that he’s too conservative.
Fox News and its embrace of the Donald is pulling our national conversation – and the 2016 Republican campaign – to the right.
Who gets to vote? As Campaign 2016 looms, Democrats and Republicans are clashing on just who gets to exercise this fundamental right in a democracy.
The public may be warmer to big brother George than pundits believe.
With Jeb Bush and Rick Perry as the latest hopefuls, the Republican presidential race looks like a free for all. Close examination shows voters are faced with fewer choices than ever before.
Even if you come in dead last in every poll, a run for the presidency might be a career booster. Then again, anyone remember the Carol Moseley Braun campaign of 2004?
The upcoming encyclical from Pope Francis can transform the climate change culture wars in America.
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Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor and Director of the Centre on US Politics, UCL
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William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science, Amherst College
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Associate Professor of Markets, Public Policy and Law, Boston University
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Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Dayton
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Associate Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University
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Part-Time Professor of Economics, The New School
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W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy, Vanderbilt University
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Professor of Political Science, University of Richmond
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Professor of Communication and Journalism, Texas A&M University
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Regents' Professor & Professor of Law, Georgia State University
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Professor in U.S. Politics and U.S. Foreign Relations at the United States Studies Centre and in the Discipline of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney
