Senate Archives

Education

The Disturbing Reason Higher Education Lobbying Groups Are Supporting For-Profit Colleges

Traditional colleges and universities have become unlikely allies of the beleaguered for-profit industry as each group tries to fend off the government’s push for more accountability.

Alec MacGillis

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Protecting Juvenile Offenders From Adult Inmates, and From Themselves

The only federal law that regulates detention conditions for juveniles is due for an upgrade.

Lauren Kirchner

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How Different Countries Involved in the Iranian Nuclear Negotiations Reported on That GOP Letter

He-said-she-said has rarely been so fun to read.

Francie Diep

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Did the Ground Game Matter in the Colorado Senate Race?

The recent Colorado race raises questions about how Bannock Street Project tactics could hold up in future contests.

Seth Masket

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Sealing Criminal Records for the Possibility of Redemption

Cory Booker and Rand Paul’s REDEEM Act.

Lauren Kirchner

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Why Polarize?

Why are state legislatures and voters both growing more polarized when it's clear that almost no one gets into politics with the goal of driving the parties further apart? Presenters at a recent conference proposed some answers.

Seth Masket

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What the Decline of Partisanship Would Look Like

Our current Republican-Democrat divide is so durable because it lines up with the conservative-liberal divide. To undermine that would require a major shift in today's ideological coalitions.

Seth Masket

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You Don’t Need to Worry About the Senate Becoming a Second House of Representatives

Even if the filibuster is eliminated.

Seth Masket

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Senators From Both Parties Do a Fine Job of Kowtowing to the Wealthy

It's not news that money buys influence in Washington, D.C. New research suggests that's pretty much a default position the better-off earn by just being better-off.

Michael Todd

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Same-Sex Marriage and the Liberalizing Effect of the Jewish Faith on the Democratic Party

In just a few years, members of the U.S. Senate have made a dramatic shift.

Shanna Pearson-Merkowitz & John McTague