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Four decades of Democratic control of Congress abruptly came to an end with the 1994 elections, which propelled the Republican party to an unfamiliar role as the majority party in both houses of Congress. Second-term congressman from Ohio Sherrod Brown was thrust into this frenetic first 100 days which were very partisan and often very nasty. Congress from the Inside takes freshman Congressman Brown through the halls of the Capitol as he learns his...
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Congressional scholars Mann and Ornstein identify two overriding problems that have led Congress and the U.S. to the brink of institutional collapse: the serious mismatch between our political parties, and a governing system that makes it extremely difficult for majorities to act. With dysfunction rooted in long-term political trends, a coarsened political culture and a new partisan media, the authors conclude that there is no single reform that can...
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To many observers, Congress has become a deeply partisan institution where ideologically-distinct political parties do little more than engage in legislative trench warfare. A zero-sum, winner-take-all approach to congressional politics has replaced the bipartisan comity of past eras. If the parties cannot get everything they want in national policymaking, then they prefer gridlock and stalemate to compromise. Or, at least, that is the conventional...
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While the Democratic nominee for President will likely emerge from the 2008 primaries bloody and bruised, the always-smiling, confoundingly popular Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, will be front and center as the party heads to its National Convention in August. Not only has she somehow won the confidence of the boys' club of the House and returned her party to majority status after twelve years of Republican rule, but she has managed, in her first...
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The U.S. Senator from Oregon who is leading the fight to restore the talking filibuster explains how changing just one rule could save our democracy
In a compelling and powerfully argued book, Senator Jeff Merkley and his longtime chief of staff tell the insiders' story of how the Senate used to work and how the filibuster came to cripple the self-styled "World's Greatest Deliberative Body" with paralyzing gridlock. And they make the surprising...
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The dramatic tale of a pivotal period in the Obama presidency, from the game-changing 2010 midterm elections to the beginning of the critical 2012 campaign season--a tumultuous time that tested the president as never before and set the stage for a titanic clash over the future of the nation. After Barack Obama's first two years as president--during which he navigated the United States through its severest economic crisis since the Great Depression...
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"Winner of the 2019 Leon Epstein Outstanding Book Award Political Organizations and Parties Section of the American Political Science Association" Devin Caughey is the Silverman (1968) Family Career Development Chair and associate professor of political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
During the Jim Crow era, the Democratic Party dominated the American South, presiding over a racially segregated society while also playing an...
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The complete riveting transcript of the historic case against the president for igniting the January 6 siege of the Capitol
"Stop the steal." "The inciter in chief." "The January exception." "Fight like hell." "The Framers' worst nightmare." "Our President wants us here." "Is this America?" "President Trump may not know a lot about the framers, but they certainly knew a lot about him."
The second impeachment trial of President Donald J. Trump, following...
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"The stakes of the next elections could not be higher. The Democrats won the election of 2020--sort of--and the disastrous consequences are already upon us. As he did in his 2016 New York Times bestseller, Armageddon: How Trump Can Beat Hillary, renowned campaign strategist Dick Morris provides the road map for taking back the White House and the nation in this new book, The Return. Conservatives must realize that there are new rules. Unless the right...
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