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.
Book abstract: Historians have long understood that the notion of "the cold war" is richly metaphorical, if not paradoxical. The conflict…
In 1791 Alexander Hamilton submitted as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury a now-famous Report on the Subject of Manufactures. In it he…
This is hardly a week when we need to be reminded that judges and, in particular, Supreme Court justices, have a profound impact on…
Political polarization in the United States hinders national progress. Consensus, painful as it is when against our respective political…
The essay discusses the negative effects of the politicization of
religion in the U.S. The authors note that modern U.S. partisan…
What's the path to religious acceptance in America—and what can Muslims, Mormons and Buddhists learn from Jews and Catholics?
A Gallup…
David E. Campbell and Robert D. Putnam ask how America can simultaneously be religiously devout, religiously diverse, and religiously…
Although the positive association between religiosity and life satisfaction is well documented, much theoretical and empirical controversy…