Friday, April 28, 2017

The Importance of Trump's First Hundred Days

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The historically productive first weeks of Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency left American politics with a tradition of news media-led ...
Monday, April 24, 2017

Interview about Asymmetric Politics with Salon.com

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I was recently interviewed by Paul Rosenberg of Salon.com about how the view of party differences that Matt and I propose in Asymmetric Poli...
Wednesday, April 12, 2017

The Kansas Election and the Stability of American Electoral Politics

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American politics over the last 25 years or so seems as if it's a roller coaster of sudden and unpredictable plot twists, each more impr...
Monday, April 10, 2017

Will Bannon Stay? Will He Go? It Actually Won't Matter Much

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We have yet to reach the three-month anniversary of Donald Trump's inauguration, yet a death watch has already started in Washington ove...
Tuesday, April 04, 2017

Goodbye, Polarization—Hello, Polarization and Factionalism

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Most people agree that one of the biggest problems—if not the biggest problem—in American politics today is partisan polarization, and most...
Saturday, March 25, 2017

Why Wasn't Obamacare Repealed? The Answer Is the Party, Not the President

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The American Health Care Act, a.k.a. the House Republicans' plan to repeal and replace Obamacare, thudded to earth on Friday afternoon a...
Wednesday, March 22, 2017

What's a President Gotta Do to Be Called a Conservative These Days?

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Donald Trump's conservative credentials have been disputed by all sides from the moment that he emerged as a leading contender for the R...
Tuesday, March 07, 2017

How the New Health Care Bill Confirms the Asymmetry of the Parties

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Matt Grossmann and I write a fair amount about health care in our book Asymmetric Politics  because it's a political issue that represen...
Thursday, March 02, 2017

Rand Paul Is Busy Blowing Up ACA Repeal. Is the White House Even Trying to Stop Him?

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The election of Donald Trump may have been a game-changer in presidential politics, but on Capitol Hill things really don't look all tha...
Tuesday, February 28, 2017

That Grover Norquist Quote Was Wrong Then...and It Just Keeps Getting Wronger

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Back in early 2012, influential conservative interest group leader Grover Norquist delivered a speech before the Conservative Political Acti...
Friday, February 17, 2017

A President Misjudges His Audience

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Whenever a major political event occurs or news story breaks, it's only a matter of time before political commentators shift from a disc...
Monday, February 06, 2017

Trump Cries "Fake News"...But What He Really Thinks Is More Important

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Last night, the New York Times  added yet another volume to what is becoming, after less than three weeks, a growing journalistic genre: th...
Friday, January 27, 2017

A Strategic Lens Won't Bring Trump into Focus, So Let's Give Psychology a Shot

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It didn't take very long for the signals to arrive that this would be a different kind of presidency. On the first full day of the Trump...
Friday, January 20, 2017

BC Scholars on the Trump Presidency

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The Boston College Chronicle asked a number of BC faculty members about their expectations for the first 100 days of the Trump presidency. ...
Monday, January 16, 2017

Asymmetric Politics on the New Books in Poli Sci Podcast

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Matt Grossmann and I are guests on the latest edition of the podcast New Books in Political Science, hosted by Heath Brown of CUNY, to talk ...
Tuesday, January 10, 2017

You Gotta Fight For Your Right...to Write the Obamacare Repeal Bill

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The Republican congressional leadership's ambition to begin the process of dismantling Obamacare within days of Donald Trump's ascen...