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Senator Elizabeth Warren speaks as former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg listens during the ninth Democratic 2020 U.S. Presidential candidates debate at the Paris Theater in Las Vegas Nevada, U.S., February 19, 2020. REUTERS/Mike Blake

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The benefits of a knives-out Democratic debate

John Hudak

Thursday, February 20, 2020

FILE PHOTO: Democratic 2020 U.S. presidential candidates former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Senator Elizabeth Warren, former Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Bernie Sanders participate in the eighth Democratic 2020 presidential debate at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire, U.S., February 7, 2020. REUTERS/Brian Snyder/File Photo

Order from Chaos

The real progressive-centrist divide on foreign policy

Thomas Wright

Wednesday, February 19, 2020

FILE PHOTO: A voter leaves a voting booth after casting her ballot in the state's presidential primary election in Greenfield, New Hampshire, U.S. February 11, 2020. REUTERS/Gretchen Ertl/File Photo

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The future is female: How the growing political power of women will remake American politics

Michael Hais and Morley Winograd

Wednesday, February 19, 2020

Democratic 2020 U.S. presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders attends a campaign event in Carson City, Nevada, U.S., February 16, 2020. REUTERS/Eric Thayer

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Do or die: Why Nevada and South Carolina are now crucial in the race for the White House

William A. Galston

Tuesday, February 18, 2020

Reports

A man walks past a stand with binary digits representing digital information during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona February 27, 2012. The GSMA Mobile World Congress, representing the interests of the worldwide mobile communications industry, will take place from February 27 to March 1 in Barcelona. REUTERS/Albert Gea (SPAIN - Tags: BUSINESS TELECOMS SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY)

Technology & Innovation

Artificial intelligence, geopolitics, and information integrity

John Villasenor

Thursday, January 30, 2020

Supporters react to election results during the watch party for Kentucky's Attorney General Andy Beshear, running for governor against Republican incumbent Matt Bevin, in Louisville, Kentucky, U.S. November 5, 2019. REUTERS/Harrison McClary - RC2G5D95SWRE

Campaigns & Elections

This week’s election and last year’s midterms bear good news for Democrats in 2020

William H. Frey

Thursday, November 7, 2019

Microphones stand at the podium after U.S. Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman John Podesta addressed supporters at the election night rally in New York, U.S., November 9, 2016. REUTERS/Adrees Latif - HT1ECB90KK9V0

Policy 2020

The urgent need for peer review in the presidential nominating process

Elaine Kamarck

Tuesday, October 29, 2019

North Carolina Electoral College representatives sign the Certificates of Vote after they all cast their ballots for U.S. President-elect Donald Trump in the State Capitol building in Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S., December 19, 2016. REUTERS/Jonathan Drake - RC12F8CC65F0

Policy 2020

It’s time to abolish the Electoral College

Darrell M. West

Tuesday, October 15, 2019

Ardana McFerren sweeps leafs outside of her home in the historic Pullman neighborhood in Chicago November 20, 2014. U.S. President Barack Obama is expected to announce the designation of the Pullman neighborhood as a national park on February 19, according to park advocates. The neighborhood's brick homes and ornate public buildings were built in the 1800s by industrialist George Pullman as a blue-collar utopia to house workers from his sleeper car factory. Picture taken November 20, 2014. REUTERS/Andrew Nelles (UNITED STATES - Tags: SOCIETY ENVIRONMENT POLITICS) - TM3EABN1EN701

Campaigns & Elections

America’s formerly redlined neighborhoods have changed, and so must solutions to rectify them

Andre M. Perry and David Harshbarger

Monday, October 14, 2019

Blog Posts

A view of a neighborhood with three story homes in Las Vegas, Nevada April 4, 2013. The buying of foreclosed homes and other distressed homes by three big institutional buyers is reshaping the housing market in Las Vegas. REUTER/Steve Marcus (UNITED STATES - Tags: REAL ESTATE BUSINESS CONSTRUCTION)

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Electing a president: The significance of Nevada

Robert E. Lang, David F. Damore, and William E. Brown Jr.

Tuesday, February 18, 2020

Michael Bloomberg speaks at a 2020 presidential campaign rally in Phoenix on Saturday, Feb. 1, 2020.Mike Bloomberg rally Feb. 1, 2020

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The political force of Michael Bloomberg’s tactical charity

Vanessa Williamson

Thursday, February 13, 2020

Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders is accompanied by his wife Jane O’Meara Sanders and other relatives as he arrives to speak at his New Hampshire primary night rally in Manchester, N.H., U.S., February 11, 2020. REUTERS/Rick Wilking

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What do the results of the 2020 New Hampshire primary mean?

William A. Galston and Elaine Kamarck

Tuesday, February 11, 2020

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Supporters of Democratic U.S. presidential candidate former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg watch election returns at his New Hampshire primary night rally in Nashua, New Hampshire, U.S., February 11, 2020. REUTERS/Brendan Mcdermid

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Elaine Kamarck and Adrianna Pita

Thursday, February 13, 2020

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