Since the Founding, Supreme Court Justices have enjoyed life tenure. This helps insulate the Justices from political pressures, but it also…
Legislative leaders tend to be ideologically more extreme than their median members. Why? This paper shows that party members select…
The COVID-19 pandemic has focused attention on the important role that frontline retail, grocery, food service, and delivery workers play…
n 2020 the EPA narrowed the definition of 'Waters of the United States', significantly limiting wetland protection under the Clean Water…
Does personal and family history influence legislative behavior in democracies? Linking members of Congress to the census, we observe…
Migration policies have direct and dramatic impacts on distress migrants. They also affect the frontline local host communities migrants…
We synthesize and review retrospective analyses of federal air quality regulations to examine the contributions of the Clean Air Act (CAA)…
Nationwide, 36 states and over 150 cities and counties have adopted what is widely known as “Ban the Box” (BtB). These policies require…
Benefits of legislation meant to help all veterans were routinely denied to Black veterans.
Families and governments are the primary sources of investment in children, providing access to basic resources and other developmental…