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Political science

COMMENTARY
Best case, worst case
Published Nov 15, 2016
SAIS scholar, former acting CIA director John McLaughlin among policy, intelligence experts to weigh in on Trump presidency / Politico
Government
What D.C. insiders think of the American public
Published Sept 28, 2016
Government bureaucrats tend to believe citizens know 'very little' about key issues, JHU political scientists write
Commentary
Profitable politics
Published Jan 4, 2016
How political consultants cash in big time from the campaign finance system / The New York Times
Race and politics
Knocking the neoliberal hustle
Published Winter 2015
Lester Spence argues that African-Americans have bought into the wrong politics / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Commentary
Inequality after racism
Published Feb 17, 2015
Provost Lieberman, co-author examine how institutions hold back African-Americans / Foreign Affairs
Political theory
Market irrationality
Published Winter 2013
William Connolly's The Fragility of Things wonders if rethinking the social roles of our jobs and lives might produce the changes we need. / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Coming to grips with 'kludgeocracy'
Published Jan 28, 2013
Hopkins political scientist Steven Teles argues that American government has become a "kludgeocracy," a problem of complexity, not of size / The Washington Post
Talk to focus on changing attitude of Supreme Court
Published Sept 18, 2012
Stanford law professor to discuss high court's recent decisions, how they are shaped by apparent disdain for politics
ELECTION 2012
How the race will be won
Published Aug 23, 2012
Critical, and sometimes overlooked, components of winning a presidential campaign / Arts & Sciences Magazine