Political Science

Foreign money doesn't walk through the front door of an election — it takes a much more respectable route.

The Trump administration turned whitehouse.gov into a state-run press shaming operation — and the mechanism is more dangerous than the insults.

Three quiet determinations signed on the same April day reveal how an emergency declaration from Day One of Trump's second term is being converted into an open-ended industrial subsidy machine for oil, gas, and grid infrastructure.

Schedule Policy/Career strips due process, silences whistleblowers, and hands the president a workforce he can fire at will — and the administration did it after nine in ten public commenters said no.

A decade of motivated-reasoning research said facts backfire on committed partisans — then a Nature Communications experiment got a surprisingly different result.

A new study finds that rigged district maps don't just distort who wins — they drain the public's belief that showing up matters at all.

"Trump Derangement Syndrome" was designed to make critics look unhinged — but look at what you actually have to believe to defend the man it protects.

Israel struck Lebanon again today, killing dozens more — and Iran answered by closing the Strait of Hormuz, threatening to unravel the fragile U.S.-Iran accord before the ink was dry.

Trump spent years stonewalling a DNA test that could have cleared his name — and now, owing $88 million in civil judgments, his Justice Department has opened a criminal probe into the woman who asked for it.

Political violence is measurably rising, the early-warning infrastructure built to catch it is being stripped for parts — and the same administration doing the stripping is generating the flashpoints.

Republicans love pointing out that the KKK and the Confederacy belonged to the Democrats — so why are they the ones screaming when those statues come down?

A 2026 Supreme Court ruling reshaped the rules of political mapmaking, and the damage it's about to do runs deeper than any single congressional district.

Trump v. CASA was framed as a boring procedural dispute — it was actually a structural transfer of power from the courts to the executive branch, and it will outlast this presidency.

Animated satire has smuggled serious ideas past our defenses for decades — but there's a real question about whether the laugh is the point or the problem.

Trump's compulsive, contradictory public speech isn't just noise — it's quietly dismantling the machinery that turns American words into American law.

A landmark 2025 study broke authoritarian populism apart from the anti-establishment kind — and what it found destroys the polite theory that strongman voters are just frustrated democrats who got lost.

Across three countries with very different governments, AI-powered facial recognition is being deployed against protesters first — and the political science research on why that sequence matters should scare you.

A psychological concept called 'person-environment fit' explains why some voters thrive under conditions that look, from the outside, like democratic collapse.

Political scientists have a name for the pattern where courts, corporations, universities, and legislators each decide individually that resistance isn't worth it — and the math of those private surrenders adds up to the end of accountability itself.

The released Epstein documents don't prove a conspiracy — but the architecture of what's been withheld is its own kind of evidence.

The latest democracy research shows American backsliding isn't being driven by force — it's being driven by voluntary surrender, and political science explains exactly why that's harder to reverse than a coup.

Political scientists have spent two decades mapping exactly how democracies die without a coup — and the indicators they built now point at the United States.

New research found that people engage more seriously with opposing political arguments from AI than from humans — which says something damning about who we've already decided not to hear.