Campaigns & Elections

Workers prepare the South Lawn for a ceremony for U.S. President Donald Trump to sign the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) trade deal at the White House in Washington, U.S. January 29, 2020. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

Trump’s government dismantlers have lost their plurality

Wednesday, September 30, 2020

President Donald Trump argues with debate moderator Chris Wallace of Fox News Channel during the first 2020 presidential campaign debate with Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden held on the campus of the Cleveland Clinic at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S., September 29, 2020. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

Was the first debate of 2020 also the last?

Tuesday, September 29, 2020

FILE PHOTO: Yard signs supporting U.S. President Donald Trump and Democratic U.S. presidential nominee and former Vice President Joe Biden are seen outside of an early voting site at the Fairfax County Government Center in Fairfax, Virginia, U.S., September 18, 2020. REUTERS/Al Drago/File Photo

Ten ways to make life better for the middle class

Hannah Van Drie and Richard V. Reeves

Tuesday, September 29, 2020

Voter registration forms and a dropbox sit outside the entrance to the Polk County Auditor's election office on Thursday, Sept. 24, 2020, in Des Moines.0924 Vote 006 Jpg

Brookings Institution Press 2020 presidential election reading list

Tuesday, September 29, 2020

Cvr: Trump's Democrats

Trump’s Democrats

By Stephanie Muravchik and Jon A. Shields

2020

People light candles as they pay their respects to late former Czech President Vaclav Havel at Wenceslas Square in Prague December 22, 2011. Havel, an anti-Communist playwright who became Czech president and a worldwide symbol of peace and freedom after leading the bloodless "Velvet Revolution", died at the age of 75 on Sunday. His funeral mass will be held on Friday in the presence of dignitaries from around the world. REUTERS/David W Cerny (CZECH REPUBLIC - Tags: OBITUARY POLITICS)

Large-scale political unrest is unlikely, but not impossible

September 26, 2020

U.S. special envoy Marshall Billingslea gestures as he speaks to the media after a meeting with Russian deputy Foreign Minister Sergej Rybakow in Vienna, Austria June 23, 2020. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger

Washington’s arms control delusions and bluffs

Monday, September 28, 2020

Past Policy 2020 Event

Do presidential debates matter?

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EDT

U.S. Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) arrives to a luncheon on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., September 23, 2020. REUTERS/Erin Scott

American democracy needs Mitt Romney to reconsider

Friday, September 25, 2020

Aug 14, 2020; Presidential candidate Joe Biden signs documents for receiving the Democratic Vice Presidential nomination at the Hotel Du Pont in Wilmington, Delaware. Mandatory Credit: Jenna Miller/Delaware News Journal via USA TODAY NETWORK

In the upcoming presidential debate, can Biden pull a Reagan?

Friday, September 25, 2020