Race/gender stereotypes and prejudice ...

President-elect Joe Biden appears to have won the 2020 presidential election by maintaining a strict message and winning the suburbs and cities.

I spent 17 minutes while exercising the other day, thinking out loud about what @GeorgeLakoff says in his 1996 book Moral Politics: What Conservatives Know That Liberals Don't, (also in his e…

National politics is always shaped by urban politics—and that won't change, even now.

Much evidence suggests that freedom of speech may be banned in the coming years under the guise of regulating "hate speech." Many on the left who demand and welcome this development do...

In an increasingly politicized world, it's harder and harder for CEOs to keep business and politics separate. And in an increasingly politicized world, they shouldn't. When an issue creates risks that are severe, broad in scope, and systemic in impact, business leaders have an obligation to speak up, especially if the issue clashes with the company's ethics, culture, and vision for the future. Reid Hoffman and…

Analyzing the politics of the antitrust hearing featuring the CEOs of Apple, Amazon, Google, and Facebook.

New H1-B ban would also hurt US companies

Kota tragedy shows why states should get priorities right

The mantle of victimhood has many uses.

In the wake of the 2020 election, there's been plenty of discussion about the accuracy and usefulness of polling. Nationally, the polling error was about 4 poin…

When it comes to politics, I believe it's far more important to take action vs. spewing your thoughts to the world. By doing the latter, you're going to (for the most part) only attract people who think like you and push those that don't away from you. This creates a bubble.

By Sudhanshu Tripathi The Hon'ble Supreme Court of India sternly reprimanded the Maharashtra government on 11-11-2020 for illegally confining Mr Arnab Goswami into jail and also criticised the Bombay

Francis Ford Coppola's epic is more relevant than ever.

Being the astute politician, Mr Modi has made his Bengal play a studied contrast to Ms Banerjee's irresponsible generosity

I'm in Florida at an event with Katie Fahey, founder of Voters Not Politicians! Naturally we got to talking about redistricting reform. Here at PEC, we've always been looking for ways to maximize the effectiveness of people's donations and time. That means finding interventions that move probabilities the most, while costing the least. Usually, these […]

There is a great and overlooked political division today – between those who think policy matters, and those who think it doesn't. Here are some examples of what I mean. First, Ed Miliband's speech on the Internal Market Bill was...

Are we seeing the birth cries of an authoritarian regime? Or is it the gang that couldn't shoot straight? Julian Zelizer and I debate this and more in episode #29 of Politics & Polls. Following up on a previous episode with Theda Skocpol on rebuilding the Democratic Party, here's a great interview with Skocpol in Democracy […]

A federal appeals court has blocked President Donald Trump's executive order issuing an immigration ban barring people from seven predominantly Muslim countries from entering the United States. Trump also has made moves toward building a border wall with Mexico, which recent figures suggest may cost an estimated $21 billion. To get into what these moves […]