Research and Commentary

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

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

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

Gridlock is No Way to Govern

April 19, 2013, Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein

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

Yes, Congress Is That Bad

December 3, 2012, Thomas E. Mann

Make Voting Mandatory and Filibusters Extinct

November 30, 2012, Thomas E. Mann

First Step in Ending D.C. Dysfunction

November 9, 2012, Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein

Election 2012 Data: The Impact on the House

November 9, 2012, Thomas E. Mann, Korin Davis, Raffaela Wakeman and Elana Firsht

The Republican and Democratic Conventions – Who Came Out Ahead?

September 7, 2012, Thomas E. Mann and William A. Galston

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Are the Political Conventions Still Relevant?

September 7, 2012, William A. Galston and Thomas E. Mann

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The Election and the Future

September 4, 2012, Thomas E. Mann and Norm Ornstein

Does Journalistic "Balance" Hurt America?: A Q&A with Thomas Mann

July 31, 2012, Trudy Lieberman and Thomas E. Mann

Five Delusions About Our Broken Politics

June 13, 2012, Thomas E. Mann and Norm Ornstein

Political Division and Dysfunction in Congress

June 4, 2012, Thomas E. Mann and Norm Ornstein