Showing posts with label Republican. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Republican. Show all posts
Thursday, September 10, 2026

Republicans for a Social Security Tax Hike?

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  Many posts have discussed Social Security and Medicare . Steve Thompson at WP : For decades, Washington has replayed the same fight ove...
Saturday, August 8, 2026

Solar Power

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  Many posts have discussed campaign finance . TIMOTHY CAMA and JACOB WENDLER at POLITICO: An aggressive new PAC backed by renewable ene...
Wednesday, May 13, 2026

GOP v. Trends in Higher Ed

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Many posts have discussed the politics of colleges and universities in the United States . Schickler E, Rodriguez EM. The College Campu...
Wednesday, September 3, 2025

Polarization and Trust in News

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Jacob Liedke and Elisa Shearer at Pew Research:
Friday, May 30, 2025

The Five Families

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Many   posts  have  discussed  the  state of Congress . Hannah Dormido and Marianna Sotomayor at WP: The House GOP conference consists of f...
Thursday, May 8, 2025

Issue Polarization

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  Many posts  have  discussed   partisan polarization . Andrew Daniller at Pew: Republicans and Democrats continue to be far apart when it ...
Friday, February 21, 2025

Republicans Benefit from Federal Programs

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Many Americans, including Republicans, depend on federal services and assistance. Melanie Zanona, Sahil Kapur and Ben Kamisar at NBC : The H...
Saturday, December 14, 2024

Suspend the Constitution and Laws? Republicans say Meh!

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A  number  of  posts  have  discussed   support  for  authoritarianism  and  political violence  in the  United States . One poll suggested ...
Tuesday, January 23, 2024

Fake Quotation Update

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Many posts  have discussed  fake quotations  from  Lincoln ,  Jefferson ,  Tocqueville , and  others .   “Success is not final, failure is n...
Saturday, December 2, 2023

Pandemic Polarization

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Many posts  have  discussed   partisan polarization  and  aversive  or  negative partisanship .  Jay J. Van Bavel have an article at  Persp...
Tuesday, November 7, 2023

Religious Composition of Party Coalitions

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  Many posts  have  discussed  the  role  of  religion  in  American life .     From Ryan Burge at Religion Unplugged :  In 2008 the religio...
Saturday, November 4, 2023

Isolationism

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Previous post s  discussed the question of isolationism in contemporary politics .  George F. Will at WP : Sen. Robert Taft (1889-1953) , s...
Wednesday, October 4, 2023

The Fall of Speaker McCarthy

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    Zachary B. Wolf at CNN: Kevin McCarthy is House speaker no more. After angering GOP hardliners with a spending bill to keep the gove...
Wednesday, June 7, 2023

Beating a Rule

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David Lerman, Laura Weiss, and Avery Roe at Roll Call Hard-right House conservatives derailed legislation scheduled for floor votes Tues...
Friday, June 2, 2023

Political Diversity at Yale

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Elite academia leans heavily to the left.    The Buckley Institute has a report on political diversity at Yale : The research found that amo...
Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Russia and Secession

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  Secession is unconstitutional. See  Texas v. White , 74 U.S. 700 (1868) Rachel Kleinfeld at  The Hill : Rep.  Marjorie Taylor Greene  (R-G...
Thursday, December 29, 2022

Getting GOP Support for the Marriage Bill

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 At NYT, Annie Karnie explains the successful effort to swing 12 GOP senators in support for the Respect for Marriage Act: “The inside maneu...
Wednesday, December 14, 2022

Partisan Diploma Divide

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Katherine Knott at Inside Higher Ed: The recent midterm elections highlighted the growing educational divide between voters as well as the...
Thursday, December 1, 2022

Earmarks Abide

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Yesterday, House Republicans rejected an earmark ban. At The Hill , Zachary Courser and Michael Thorning suggest that the Republicans made t...
Monday, November 21, 2022

Religion and Climate Change Opinion

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Becka A. Alper at Pew: Most U.S. adults – including a solid majority of Christians and large numbers of people who identify with other reli...