Politics & Law Archives

Stagnating Gains for Women in Politics

How can we get more women in public office? For starters, get more to run.

Researchers fear that a lawsuit aimed at the developer of the "hockey stick" temperature map is actually a political salvo at science.

A look at who boycotts whom in the United States finds that those on the margins are the most likely to participate.

Bob Bennett's fall in Utah adds evidence to research showing polarization truly is the worst it's ever been in Washington, D.C.

The White House is using competition as a soft-power method to drive change from offices to schools to statehouses and beyond.

An analysis of 27 presidential debates finds a decline in the amount of abstract thought present during discussions of economics.

If I'm going to help pay your health care bills, you could at least try and eat better.

Despite the heavy breathing about the constitutionally mandated U.S. Census this year, participation rates are pretty high.

When did being a qualified eminent jurist of the president's choosing become insufficient to make it to the U.S. Supreme Court?

Innovation, and not just drilling the same well deeper, could make energy in America as common, as, well, salt.