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May 2025

What the giant House spending bill tells us about Republicans’ vision for America
Why it’s a bad idea to let the guy who bankrupted casinos run your fiscal house, in four charts.
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Jennifer Nicoll Victor
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How shrinking the government adds power to the presidency
Asserting authority to cut government is DOGE's most profound accomplishment to date
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Jennifer Nicoll Victor
Tariffs and Board Games
One example of how Trump’s tariffs affect niche industries that Americans value.
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Matthew N. Green
Are Members of Congress Pushing Back against President Trump?
Part I: What Congressional Democrats are doing
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Matthew N. Green
The US crisis is political, not constitutional
The Constitution provides instructions for how to resolve the crises generated by executive overreach, but partisanship thwarts the remedy.
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Jennifer Nicoll Victor
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April 2025

Evaluating Trump II’s First 100 Days
Documenting a presidency unlike any other.
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Matthew N. Green
When a democracy falls, do the people know?
A simple four-category test applied to acts over the first 90 days of Trump-II shows autocracy rising in the US due primarily to violations of the rule…
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Jennifer Nicoll Victor
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Mischiefs of Faction, now on Substack
Now in its fourth evolutionary form, we reintroduce Mischiefs of Faction -- a political scientist's "community blog."
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Jennifer Nicoll Victor
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