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Short-Term Gain, Long-Term Losses: Why the Republican Embrace of Extreme Conservatism Could Usher in
“Make America Great Again.” While the infamous slogan may conjure images of the twice-impeached former US president, its message...
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Mar 15, 20237 min read


Split Personality Politics: National Political Polarization’s Impact on State Candidate Positi
Although the November midterms will not involve voting in a president, these elections will prove monumental in determining Republicans’...
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Oct 26, 20226 min read


Moderate Democrats Claim to Want Democracy While Actively Funding Far-Right Candidates
This past May, State Senator Doug Mastriano emerged victorious in his Pennsylvania primary, receiving the Republican nomination for...
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Oct 20, 20225 min read


How Democrats Won the Farm Bill
A public showdown. Two empty chambers. A fortune at stake. It’s not a wild west movie—it’s the escalation of political tensions that...
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Mar 3, 20195 min read


Zoned Out: How a Bipartisan Investment Bill is Ripe for Abuse
Hidden within the 2018 tax reform bill is a provision that could reinvent development financing across the country. The Investment in...
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May 28, 20183 min read


Political Boxing Match: Who’s Leading Whom in Health Care?
The United States is in a unique political moment. Today, Republicans and Democrats are more divided along ideological lines than in any...
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May 26, 20175 min read


Who is the CFPB Really Protecting?
“A vast bureaucracy with no congressional oversight, that’s digging through hundreds of millions of your credit records to detect fraud,”...
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Jun 6, 20167 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


The Mob Wasn’t Meant to Rule
The figure of the political outsider has never been hotter in American politics, a trend that predictably corresponds with the longest...
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Mar 1, 20166 min read


The Cruz Calculation
The 2016 Republican presidential primary has been – in a word – unpredictable. Ink and airtime have been monopolized by a confounding...
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Feb 6, 20165 min read


Winning With No One: Social Conservatism in an Age of Low Turnout
In June of 2015, when the Supreme Court finally legalized same-sex marriage, many activists began celebrating the end of the culture...
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Dec 3, 20155 min read


Romantic Republicans: The Peculiar Nostalgia of the GOP
In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s famed novel, The Great Gatsby, Nick Carraway proclaims to Jay Gatsby, “’You can’t repeat the past.” Gatsby...
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Dec 3, 20155 min read


Why We Ignore American Poverty
More children in the United States live in poverty today than did during the Great Recession, according to a recent report by the Annie...
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Nov 12, 20155 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


BPR Interview: Thomas Perez
Thomas Perez ’83, a Brown alumnus who holds a master of public policy and a law degree from Harvard University, is the US Secretary of...
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Dec 22, 20144 min read


A Powerful Shift: Cuban-Americans are Moving Left
The 2014 midterm election cycle saw many competitive Democratic House districts fall, including the race for Florida’s 26th and...
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Nov 14, 20144 min read


Justice Isn’t Blind
Long lines, shoddy preparations and incomprehensible rules: The US voting process is marred by these well-documented problems. But these...
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Oct 22, 20144 min read


Women Wanted
The Republican Party is like a bunch of awkward guys on dates — trying very hard, but having trouble winning over women. With the midterm...
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Oct 22, 20145 min read


The Rocky Path to a Green Legacy
“We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations,”...
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Sep 2, 20147 min read


Running the Unwinnable Race
John Dennis is running against Majority Leader Pelosi this November. Art by Katrina Machado John Dennis’ next few months look rough....
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Aug 13, 20146 min read
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