A People and a Nation is a best-selling text offering a spirited narrative that tells the stories of all people in the United States. The…
Book abstract: For more than 25 years, The Presidency and the Political System has showcased the best of presidential studies and research…
Can protests cause political change, or are they merely symptoms of underlying shifts in policy preferences? We address this question by…
Professor Burns reflects on recent Supreme Court decisions dealing with voting rights and same-sex marriage.
Whatever happened to quiet bravery and dignity?
It’s Sunday and Harvard and Cambridge have started to recover a sense of normalcy—but not quite.
Yesterday my older son texted me the…
Amid the shock, grief and anger, what can we learn? Nicholas Burns dissects this week's Boston Marathon bombings.
If a friend from Ottawa who was running in the Boston Marathon had been just a few minutes slower, she would have run past when the bomb…
This paper sheds light on the links between media and political polarization by looking at the introduction of broadcast TV in the US. We…
Book abstract: Canada and the United States are consistently ranked among the most democratic countries in the world, yet voices expressing…