Enik Rising

I'm one of the host co-chairs of the fifth annual Political Networks conference , being held next month in Boulder. Since this conferen...

Over at the Monkey Cage, John Sides comments on the House of Representatives' recent vote to defund the Political Science program at th...

It's become an article of faith that Democrats in Congress paid a price for having passed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act...

One point I wouldn't mind hearing more of from the media in their coverage of debt ceiling negotiations: It is very, very hard to know w...

I haven't seen a whole lot of ink comparing the results of the 1995-96 government shutdown with those of last week's almost-shutdown...

One of the recurrent liberal critiques I've heard of Obama's recent tax negotiation with Republicans is that he appears to not be a ...

Loyal readers may recall that I've been running a simulation of American government class this quarter.  Basically, most of the student...