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The Allure of Hidden Bipartisanship: The Flaws of Secret Congress Theory
Since the 2020 elections, gridlock in the United States Senate has transformed from a pressing political problem to a fact of political...
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Mar 16, 20225 min read


The House that Madison Built
At one point during the 2016 presidential election, 95 percent of Republicans believed that Washington and the American political system...
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Apr 30, 20175 min read


Having It Both Ways on Both Sides of the Aisle
Throughout history, a foundational divide in American politics has split the federal government. In the early days of the republic,...
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Mar 25, 20164 min read


Balancing the Budget Office: Republicans and Democrats are settling the score on the CBO.
In today’s game of politics, it’s hard to keep score — especially for the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). Although it is tasked with...
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May 1, 20156 min read


Cable News in the Age of Millennials
This past week, MSBNC announced it would be canceling both the Reid Report and Ronan Farrow Daily, two of its daytime shows that had been...
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Mar 8, 20156 min read


Something Everyone Can Agree On: Dark Money Across the Aisle
This past week, the Koch brothers announced that they were pledging roughly $900 million to back select conservative candidates during...
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Mar 6, 20155 min read


What it Means to be Jewish in American Politics
A Pew Research graphic illustrating the religious makeup of the 114th Congress, via the Pew Research Center. Do American politicians see...
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Feb 15, 20154 min read


The Wrong Agenda: Using the Middle Class for Political Gain
As the August recess approached, congressional attention was seized by a slew of unexpected agenda items. The human rights crisis...
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Sep 26, 20144 min read


Dire Data: When Voters Begin to Act Like Politicians
Politicians like data. But trends are a different story — harder to confuse and more difficult to misapply, trends can spell out dire...
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Aug 31, 20146 min read


BPR Interview: Sen. Bob Casey
Senator Bob Casey, the senior Democratic U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania, talks to Brown Political Review’s Ben Wofford. Casey was...
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Dec 6, 20133 min read


BPR Interview: Arianna Huffington
Arianna Huffington, the president and editor-and-chief of the Huffington Post Media Group, talks to Brown Political Review’s Ben Wofford....
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Dec 6, 20134 min read


BPR Interview: Tucker Carlson
Tucker Carlson, a conservative commentator for Fox News, talks to Brown Political Review’s Annika Lichtenbaum. Carlson is co-founder and...
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Dec 4, 20135 min read


BPR Interview: Danielle Pletka
Danielle Pletka, Vice President for Foreign and Defense Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute, talks to Brown Political...
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Dec 4, 20136 min read


BPR Interview: Sen. Chris Murphy
Chris Murphy, the junior U.S. Senator from Connecticut, talks to Brown Political Review’s Henry Knight. Sen. Murphy voted against this...
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Dec 3, 20135 min read
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