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United States Politics and Policy

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Democracy and culture

Political commentators on TV panels don’t look like America and often sideline women

June 18th, 2025

The Ballpark podcast interviews

The US and India–Pakistan tensions with Lisa Curtis | The Ballpark podcast

June 19th, 2025

Elections and party politics across the US

The 2026 Midterms: Michigan’s Senate race could go down to the wire – again

June 19th, 2025

Elections and party politics across the US

Ranked Choice Voting is imperfect, and could mean an unexpected outcome in the primary election for Mayor of New York

June 18th, 2025

Trump's second term

Economy

Tariffs, automation and inequality: why US jobs won’t return but developing countries will still lose

June 14th, 2025

Democracy and culture

What a narcissistic populist presidency means for American policy and its people

June 12th, 2025

Democracy and culture

Don’t confuse Trump’s exploits with getting things done

June 12th, 2025

2025 Essay Competition

AI Essay Competition Runner up: Trump’s hunger for AI domination is allowing Silicon Valley to seize the state but not its people

March 18th, 2025

2025 Essay Competition

AI Essay Competition Runner up: The AI race: will the US lead or fall behind?

March 18th, 2025

2025 Essay Competition

AI Essay Competition Winner: AI in the US: The Next Space Race or the Next Subprime Crisis?

March 17th, 2025

The 2024 Elections

Democracy and culture

The 2024 Elections: How “Wedge Lies” are fuelling democratic backsliding in the US

May 19th, 2025

Elections and party politics across the US

The 2024 Elections: Joe Biden’s latest interview shows how America is at an inflection point

May 14th, 2025

The 2024 Elections

The 2024 Elections: Why a media savvy British politician-ambassador may be just what the US-UK relationship needs

March 11th, 2025

Elections and party politics across the US

The 2026 Midterms: Michigan’s Senate race could go down to the wire – again

June 19th, 2025

Elections and party politics across the US

Ranked Choice Voting is imperfect, and could mean an unexpected outcome in the primary election for Mayor of New York

June 18th, 2025

Elections and party politics across the US

Facing institutional barriers to sponsoring bills in Congress, newly elected minority representatives cosponsor far more than their non-minority counterparts

June 6th, 2025

Democracy and culture

Political commentators on TV panels don’t look like America and often sideline women

June 18th, 2025

Democracy and culture

What a narcissistic populist presidency means for American policy and its people

June 12th, 2025

Democracy and culture

Don’t confuse Trump’s exploits with getting things done

June 12th, 2025

US foreign affairs and the North American neighbourhood

The Ballpark podcast interviews

The US and India–Pakistan tensions with Lisa Curtis | The Ballpark podcast

June 19th, 2025

Book Reviews

Book Review | Contest for the Indian Ocean and the Making of a New World Order

June 8th, 2025

The Ballpark podcast interviews

International Relations and Democracy in a Multipolar World | The Ballpark podcast

June 3rd, 2025

The Ballpark podcast interviews

The US and India–Pakistan tensions with Lisa Curtis | The Ballpark podcast

June 19th, 2025

The Ballpark podcast interviews

International Relations and Democracy in a Multipolar World | The Ballpark podcast

June 3rd, 2025

Democracy and culture

AI and intellectual property with Dr Bhamati Viswanathan | The Ballpark podcast

May 21st, 2025

Economy

Tariffs, automation and inequality: why US jobs won’t return but developing countries will still lose

June 14th, 2025

Economy

Is Starbucks’ reversal of automation the new game in town?

June 7th, 2025

Book Reviews

Book Review | Extractive Capitalism

May 25th, 2025

Event Reviews

Is there a new Washington Consensus? – LSE Phelan US Centre Event Review

March 1st, 2025

Event Reviews

Leadership or Drift: What’s Next for US Foreign Policy? – LSE Phelan US Centre Event Review

February 8th, 2025

Elections and party politics across the US

The 2024 US election: turning point for America? – LSE Phelan Centre Event Review

November 16th, 2024

Environment

Book Reviews

Book Review | Growth: A Reckoning

June 15th, 2025

Book Reviews

Book Review | Extractive Capitalism

May 25th, 2025

Environment

States with existing renewable energy policies are more likely to promote the equitable adoption of rooftop solar power

May 21st, 2025

Urban, rural and regional policies

How zines can share knowledge about shrinking domesticity

June 6th, 2025

Urban, rural and regional policies

Well-established New York City neighborhoods were more likely to embrace and enforce measures to prevent COVID-19

May 23rd, 2025

Environment

States with existing renewable energy policies are more likely to promote the equitable adoption of rooftop solar power

May 21st, 2025

Justice and Domestic Affairs

Democratic policymakers increasingly support reparations commissions, but are they more than a symbolic gesture?

June 16th, 2025

Justice and Domestic Affairs

Legislators who descend from immigrants historically supported more permissive immigration policies

June 12th, 2025

Justice and Domestic Affairs

News media focus on “illegal” immigrants drives how Americans think about immigration policy

June 12th, 2025

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