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Our Fantasy: A Congress that Gets Stuff Done

September 3, 2013, Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein
Shelby County v. Holder and the Future of the Voting Rights Act

August 9, 2013, Nathaniel Persily and Thomas E. Mann
Vital Statistics on Congress: A Sampling of Your Analysis from Around the Web

July 23, 2013, Thomas E. Mann and Raffaela L. Wakeman
The Future of the Republican Party: Is the GOP DOA?

July 17, 2013
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Vital Statistics on Congress

July 2013, Norman J. Ornstein, Thomas E. Mann, Michael J. Malbin and Andrew Rugg
Voting Rights after the Supreme Court's Shelby County v. Holder Decision

June 25, 2013, Thomas E. Mann and Raffaela L. Wakeman
Act of Congress: How America's Essential Institution Works, and How It Doesn't

May 28, 2013
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Sadly, divided party government, which we have because of the Republican House, in a time of extreme partisan polarization, is a formula for inaction and absolutist opposition politics, not for problem solving.
April 26, 2013, Thomas E. Mann, Moyers & Company
Why Congress is Failing Us

April 26, 2013, Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein
Finding the Common Good in an Era of Dysfunctional Governance

April 26, 2013, Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein
China-Taiwan-United States Relations

April 23, 2013
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Gridlock is No Way to Govern

April 19, 2013, Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein
Ironically, Obama tried harder and longer than the results merited to work cooperatively with Republicans in Congress. He has learned painfully that his public embrace of a policy virtually ensures Republican opposition and that intensive negotiations with Republican leaders are likely to lead to a dead end. No bourbon and branch-water laced meetings with Republicans in Congress or pre-emptive compromises with them will induce cooperative behavior.
March 6, 2013, Thomas E. Mann, U.S. News & World Report
Vital Statistics on Congress

March 5, 2013, Norman J. Ornstein, Thomas E. Mann, Michael J. Malbin and Andrew Rugg
Countering Corruption: 2012 Conference Report from the World Forum on Governance

March 4, 2013, Stephen M. Davis, Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein
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As 'Devastating' as Sequester is, not 'Immediate Catastrophe'

March 3, 2013, Thomas E. Mann
Five Myths About the Sequester

February 28, 2013, Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein
What to Expect in Obama's State of the Union Address

February 7, 2013, Thomas E. Mann
Brookings Expert Roundtable on President Obama’s State of the Union Priorities

February 7, 2013, Sarah A. Binder, William A. Galston, Ron Haskins and Thomas E. Mann
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Five Myths about the 112th Congress

January 4, 2013, Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein
The reality is it is not tenable simply for Republicans to stay in opposition for the whole second term of President Obama. If they are seen as the obstacle to doing anything to solve our problems, they are writing their own death certificate.
December 25, 2012, Thomas E. Mann, Voice of America
Yes, Congress Is That Bad

December 3, 2012, Thomas E. Mann
Make Voting Mandatory and Filibusters Extinct

November 30, 2012, Thomas E. Mann
What I would guess is the tea party types and other activist conservatives will heckle him [Rep. Scott DesJarlais] into leaving (Congress). He can expect a (primary) challenge.
November 16, 2012, Thomas E. Mann, USA Today
No consensus between the parties is in sight after the election, and polarization has been exacerbated, not diminished.
November 10, 2012, Thomas E. Mann, The Arab American News