In the final week of the 1980 presidential campaign between Democratic President Jimmy Carter and Republican nominee Ronald Reagan, the two…
Regulatory Breakdown: The Crisis of Confidence in U.S. Regulation brings fresh insight and analytic rigor to what has become one of the…
Book abstract: Historians have long understood that the notion of "the cold war" is richly metaphorical, if not paradoxical. The conflict…
Leading US Democrats and former White House insiders Elaine C. Kamarck and Robert B. Reich break down the US presidential election and the…
There are Tiger Moms and Helicopter Moms and French Moms, and all sorts of labels to measure our adequacies as parents. But these moms have…
Predicting a presidential candidate’s choice of running mate is a risky business. It is one of the few campaign decisions that is made…
In 1791 Alexander Hamilton submitted as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury a now-famous Report on the Subject of Manufactures. In it he…
On 3 September 2008, the Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin made “community organizing” part of mainstream political…
Indeed, if we were drafting a constitution today, few people would even consider a presidential electoral system like the
In a…
The 2012 election campaign—for Congress as well as the presidency—promises to be bitterly fought, even nasty. Leaders of both major parties…