Politics

Updated judicial vacancies tool: big reduction in median time to Senate action
Map & Data Resources | Meade Klingensmith, Mike Alberti | Law, Politics
Oct. 16, 2013 — Remapping Debate has updated three tools by which to explore the scope of federal judicial court vacancies and to assess who is responsible for the increasing delay between the...view
Shackling gov’t employees to their desks
Original Reporting | Timothy Noah | Government services, Politics
Sept. 25, 2013 — That government should be run more like a business has been a central tenet of Republican orthodoxy for more than a century. In 1910, Nelson W. Aldrich, a Republican senator...view
Not wanting to believe the results
Press Criticism | Craig Gurian | Gender equity, NYC, Politics
Sept. 25, 2013 — That gender-based stereotyping still can create challenges for women who are candidates for public office, challenges not faced by their male counterparts, is a sad reality of...view
Something special in the air
Editorial Cartoons | | Income inequality, Politics
Sept. 25, 2013 — Have a higher resolution monitor? Click here for screen resolutions of 1280 x 960 or better, or here for 1920 x 1200 or better. view
Invisible hands
Interviews | Kevin C. Brown | Corporations, History, Politics
Sept. 11, 2013 — Kim Phillips-Fein, a historian and associate professor at New York University, discusses her book, “Invisible Hands: The Making of the Conservative Movement from the New Deal to...view
Fear, the magic dragon
Editorial Cartoons | | Health care, Politics
Sept. 11, 2013 — Have a higher resolution monitor? Click here for screen resolutions of 1280 x 960 or better, or here for 1920 x 1200 or better. view
The real border war
Editorial Cartoons | | Budget deficit, Military, Politics
June 26, 2013 — Have a higher resolution monitor? Click here for screen resolutions of 1280 x 960 or better, or here for 1920 x 1200 or better. view
Citizens without obligations?
Original Reporting | Mike Alberti | Citizenship, Corporations, Politics
June 12, 2013 — If American corporations are, as the Supreme Court ruled in 2010, citizens entitled to free speech and other rights from the nation, what corresponding obligations to the nation do...view
Fighting over how to define and empower families
Interviews | Kevin C. Brown | History, Politics
June 12, 2013 — Robert O. Self, professor of history at Brown University, discusses his book, “All in the Family: The Realignment of American Democracy since the 1960s.” Self places debates over...view
All for one, and one for all
Editorial Cartoons | | Budget deficit, Media, Politics
June 5, 2013 — Have a higher resolution monitor? Click here for screen resolutions of 1280 x 960 or better, or here for 1920 x 1200 or better. view

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