LINKS TO MY COLUMNS AND BLOG POSTS
"Since 2018, Republicans Have Lost Confidence In U.S. Institutions" (with Sean Kates and Joshua Tucker). Washington Post (Monkey Cage Blog). Dec. 30, 2022.
"These Two Big Unknowns Make the 2022 Midterms Unusually Unpredictable." Mischiefs of Faction. Nov. 4, 2022.
"Is the FBI Impartial? Over Half of Republicans Say ‘No.’ Allegations of Political Biases in Law Enforcement Can Hurt Democracy" (with Jan Zilinsky, Sean Kates, and Joshua Tucker). Washington Post (Monkey Cage Blog). Sept. 15, 2022.
"Bridging the Divide Between Computer Science and Social Science Standards for Measurement" (with Rebecca Ryan). The Future of Quantitative Research in Social Science Blog (NSF Convergence Project). Jan. 22, 2021.
"Remove Trump Immediately" (with Matt Green, Gregory Koger , Seth Masket , Hans Noel, Richard Skinner, Amy Erica Smith, and Jennifer Victor). Mischiefs of Faction. Jan. 7, 2021.
"Destroying Trust in the Media, Science, and Government has Left America Vulnerable to Disaster" (with Marc Hetherington). FixGov Blog at the Brookings Institution. May 1, 2020.
"Six Political Scientists React to the First Democratic Primary Debates." Vox (Mischiefs of Faction Blog). June 28, 2019.
"The Senate Is a Much Bigger Problem Than The Electoral College." Vox (Mischiefs of Faction Blog). April 9, 2019
"Should You Worry about American Democracy? Here’s What Our New Poll Finds" (with Sean Kates and Joshua Tucker). Washington Post (Monkey Cage Blog). Oct. 24, 2018.
"Why Inaccurate Political Information Spreads: And Why Partisanship Makes It Difficult for People to Accept Corrections" (with Alex Podkul). Medium page of the Knight Commission on Trust, Media and Democracy. March 6, 2018.
"Negative Partisanship May Be the Most Toxic Form of Polarization." Vox (Mischiefs of Faction Blog). June 2, 2017.
"3 Pressing Issues To Think About This Week Besides the Debates" (with Julia Azari and Jennifer N. Victor). Vox (Mischiefs of Faction Blog). Oct. 3, 2016.
"Trump's Only Significant Campaign Skill Is Manipulating the Media. But He's Great At It." Vox (Mischiefs of Faction Blog). Sept. 26, 2016.
"Exclude Johnson for Voters' Sake: In the System We Have, Allowing Third-Party Candidates to Debate Is a Waste." US News and World Report. Sept. 16, 2016.
"In the 2016 Election, Campaign Messages Matter." Vox (Mischiefs of Faction Blog). Aug. 22, 2016.
"There Are 2 Republican Conventions in Cleveland" (with Hans Noel). Vox (Mischiefs of Faction Blog). July 21, 2016.
"Old Convention Traditions Are Coming Back, But They Don't Work Anymore." Vox (Mischiefs of Faction Blog). July 21, 2016.
"Reality TV Logic vs. Political Convention Logic." Vox (Mischiefs of Faction Blog). July 21, 2016.
"The Speakers Hurting Trump the Most Are the Ones Who Never Showed Up." Vox (Mischiefs of Faction Blog). July 20, 2016.
"Donald Trump's General Election Media Problem." Vox (Mischiefs of Faction Blog). June 27, 2016.
"Ideological Mobilization Helps Parties, Unless It Overpowers Them." Vox (Mischiefs of Faction Blog). May 19, 2016.
"Donald Trump Is Sloppy About Policy Details, But Precise at Managing Party Factions." Vox (Mischiefs of Faction Blog). April 11, 2016
"The Supreme Court Vacancy Makes the Next Year in Politics Even Wilder." Vox (Mischiefs of Faction Blog). Feb. 15, 2016.
"Hillary Clinton Faces the Same Challenge that George H.W. Bush Faced in 1988." Vox (Mischiefs of Faction Blog). Jan. 22, 2016.
"The New Republic Lost the Battle Over American Liberalism." Vox (Mischiefs of Faction Blog). Jan. 13, 2016.
"3 Trends in this Week's Elections: Biased Electorates, Nationalization, and Redistricting Reform." Vox (Mischiefs of Faction Blog). Nov. 5, 2015.
"The Problem with the Galactic Republic Was the Jedi." Vox (Mischiefs of Faction Blog). Oct. 9, 2015.
"Campaign Polls Are Still Variable. Votes Are Still Predictable." Vox (Mischiefs of Faction Blog). Oct. 1, 2015.
"The System Set Boehner Up for Failure." Vox (Mischiefs of Faction Blog). Sept. 27, 2015.
"11 Candidates and an Airplane: Our Reactions to the Republican Debate." Vox (Mischiefs of Faction Blog). Sept. 17, 2015
"Don't Worry about Special Interests. It Is Economic and Social Inequalities, Not Interest Groups, that Make Politics Elitist." Vox (Mischiefs of Faction Blog). Sept. 11, 2015.
"Four Approaches to Providing Political News, Given that So Many People Don't Want It." Mischiefs of Faction. Aug. 20, 2015.
"Two Approaches to Predicting Which Party Will Win in 2016." Mischiefs of Faction. July 23, 2015.
"Why Don't the Clintons and the Press Get Along?." Mischiefs of Faction. March 16, 2015.
"An Alternative to One-Dimensional Good-to-Bad Presidential Rankings." Mischiefs of Faction. Feb. 23, 2015.
"More Evidence that Depressions Don't Solve Policy Problems." Mischiefs of Faction. Jan. 26, 2015.
"Are Obama's Interactions with Congress Unusually Distant?" Mischiefs of Faction. Jan. 21, 2015.
"President Cuomo Would Have Disappointed Liberals, Like All Democratic Presidents Do." Mischiefs of Faction. Jan. 9, 2015.
"3 Reasons the Tragic Killings By and Of Police Won't Have Big National Partisan Implications." Mischiefs of Faction. Dec. 22, 2014.
"Only Elite Norms, Not Public Opinion, Can Stop America from Torturing Again." Mischiefs of Faction. Dec. 16, 2014.
"Implications of the 2014 Midterm Election Results." Mischiefs of Faction. Nov. 5, 2014.
"There Is an Opportunity to Challenge Clinton From the Left, But It Is on Education, Not Economics." Mischiefs of Faction. Oct. 30, 2014.
"Why Do U.S. Political Parties Lie About Their Histories?" Mischiefs of Faction. Sept. 16, 2014.
"Ezra Klein Gives Political Scientists Some of Their Own Medicine." Mischiefs of Faction. Sept. 2, 2014.
"When Predicting Hillary Clinton's Potential Foreign Policy, Look at More than Just Cheap Talk." Mischiefs of Faction. Aug. 12, 2014.
"U.S. Public Opinion on the Israel-Hamas Conflict Has Little to Do with the Conflict Itself." Mischiefs of Faction. Aug. 1, 2014.
"Yes, Robert E. Lee Supported Slavery, the Confederacy and Its Battle Flag." Mischiefs of Faction. July 22, 2014.
"Adventures in Motivated Reasoning: Circumcision Edition." Mischiefs of Faction. June 23, 2014.
"Spoiler Alert! President Obama Is Not Going to Send Combat Troops to Another Overseas War." Mischiefs of Faction. June 16, 2014.
"Why the Republican Establishment Doesn't Care Much about Centrism in Primary Contests." Mischiefs of Faction. June 10, 2014.
"Gerrymandering Is a Useless Concept. Redistricting Is a Choice Among Values." Mischiefs of Faction. May 22, 2014.
"Parties Are More Consequential than Clever Framing: Estate Tax Edition." Mischiefs of Faction. May 15, 2014.
"Clinton v Bush in 2016 Could Be the Most Political Science-y Presidential Election of All Time." Mischiefs of Faction. May 1, 2014.
"Why Are Conservatives Obsessed with Reagan? He Coincided with Ideological Party Takeover Like No Democratic President Did." Mischiefs of Faction. April 21, 2014.
"Rush Limbaugh is Correct. Stephen Colbert is a Liberal, While Jon Stewart Is Just a Progressive Era Reformer." Mischiefs of Faction. April 16, 2014.
"How Much Should We Care about Political Hypocrisy? The Case of Dianne Feinstein and the CIA." Mischiefs of Faction. March 17, 2014.
"Distrust in the Media and Confirmation Bias." The Monkey Cage. April 27, 2012.
"Why It Matters that People Distrust the Media." The Monkey Cage. April 26, 2012.
"Why Don’t People Trust the Media Anymore? (Part 1)" The Monkey Cage. April 25, 2012.
"What's Fueling Romney's Success?" CNN.com. Jan. 11, 2012.
"Since 2018, Republicans Have Lost Confidence In U.S. Institutions" (with Sean Kates and Joshua Tucker). Washington Post (Monkey Cage Blog). Dec. 30, 2022.
"These Two Big Unknowns Make the 2022 Midterms Unusually Unpredictable." Mischiefs of Faction. Nov. 4, 2022.
"Is the FBI Impartial? Over Half of Republicans Say ‘No.’ Allegations of Political Biases in Law Enforcement Can Hurt Democracy" (with Jan Zilinsky, Sean Kates, and Joshua Tucker). Washington Post (Monkey Cage Blog). Sept. 15, 2022.
"Bridging the Divide Between Computer Science and Social Science Standards for Measurement" (with Rebecca Ryan). The Future of Quantitative Research in Social Science Blog (NSF Convergence Project). Jan. 22, 2021.
"Remove Trump Immediately" (with Matt Green, Gregory Koger , Seth Masket , Hans Noel, Richard Skinner, Amy Erica Smith, and Jennifer Victor). Mischiefs of Faction. Jan. 7, 2021.
"Destroying Trust in the Media, Science, and Government has Left America Vulnerable to Disaster" (with Marc Hetherington). FixGov Blog at the Brookings Institution. May 1, 2020.
"Six Political Scientists React to the First Democratic Primary Debates." Vox (Mischiefs of Faction Blog). June 28, 2019.
"The Senate Is a Much Bigger Problem Than The Electoral College." Vox (Mischiefs of Faction Blog). April 9, 2019
"Should You Worry about American Democracy? Here’s What Our New Poll Finds" (with Sean Kates and Joshua Tucker). Washington Post (Monkey Cage Blog). Oct. 24, 2018.
"Why Inaccurate Political Information Spreads: And Why Partisanship Makes It Difficult for People to Accept Corrections" (with Alex Podkul). Medium page of the Knight Commission on Trust, Media and Democracy. March 6, 2018.
"Negative Partisanship May Be the Most Toxic Form of Polarization." Vox (Mischiefs of Faction Blog). June 2, 2017.
"3 Pressing Issues To Think About This Week Besides the Debates" (with Julia Azari and Jennifer N. Victor). Vox (Mischiefs of Faction Blog). Oct. 3, 2016.
"Trump's Only Significant Campaign Skill Is Manipulating the Media. But He's Great At It." Vox (Mischiefs of Faction Blog). Sept. 26, 2016.
"Exclude Johnson for Voters' Sake: In the System We Have, Allowing Third-Party Candidates to Debate Is a Waste." US News and World Report. Sept. 16, 2016.
"In the 2016 Election, Campaign Messages Matter." Vox (Mischiefs of Faction Blog). Aug. 22, 2016.
"There Are 2 Republican Conventions in Cleveland" (with Hans Noel). Vox (Mischiefs of Faction Blog). July 21, 2016.
"Old Convention Traditions Are Coming Back, But They Don't Work Anymore." Vox (Mischiefs of Faction Blog). July 21, 2016.
"Reality TV Logic vs. Political Convention Logic." Vox (Mischiefs of Faction Blog). July 21, 2016.
"The Speakers Hurting Trump the Most Are the Ones Who Never Showed Up." Vox (Mischiefs of Faction Blog). July 20, 2016.
"Donald Trump's General Election Media Problem." Vox (Mischiefs of Faction Blog). June 27, 2016.
"Ideological Mobilization Helps Parties, Unless It Overpowers Them." Vox (Mischiefs of Faction Blog). May 19, 2016.
"Donald Trump Is Sloppy About Policy Details, But Precise at Managing Party Factions." Vox (Mischiefs of Faction Blog). April 11, 2016
"The Supreme Court Vacancy Makes the Next Year in Politics Even Wilder." Vox (Mischiefs of Faction Blog). Feb. 15, 2016.
"Hillary Clinton Faces the Same Challenge that George H.W. Bush Faced in 1988." Vox (Mischiefs of Faction Blog). Jan. 22, 2016.
"The New Republic Lost the Battle Over American Liberalism." Vox (Mischiefs of Faction Blog). Jan. 13, 2016.
"3 Trends in this Week's Elections: Biased Electorates, Nationalization, and Redistricting Reform." Vox (Mischiefs of Faction Blog). Nov. 5, 2015.
"The Problem with the Galactic Republic Was the Jedi." Vox (Mischiefs of Faction Blog). Oct. 9, 2015.
- Reaction from Cass Sunstein (Harvard University): "I am not at all sure how strong the Force runs in Jonathan Ladd's family. (Is he perhaps Sith? Doesn't 'Jonathan' have almost the same numbers of letters as 'Sidious'? Can that be a coincidence?)"
"Campaign Polls Are Still Variable. Votes Are Still Predictable." Vox (Mischiefs of Faction Blog). Oct. 1, 2015.
"The System Set Boehner Up for Failure." Vox (Mischiefs of Faction Blog). Sept. 27, 2015.
"11 Candidates and an Airplane: Our Reactions to the Republican Debate." Vox (Mischiefs of Faction Blog). Sept. 17, 2015
"Don't Worry about Special Interests. It Is Economic and Social Inequalities, Not Interest Groups, that Make Politics Elitist." Vox (Mischiefs of Faction Blog). Sept. 11, 2015.
"Four Approaches to Providing Political News, Given that So Many People Don't Want It." Mischiefs of Faction. Aug. 20, 2015.
"Two Approaches to Predicting Which Party Will Win in 2016." Mischiefs of Faction. July 23, 2015.
"Why Don't the Clintons and the Press Get Along?." Mischiefs of Faction. March 16, 2015.
"An Alternative to One-Dimensional Good-to-Bad Presidential Rankings." Mischiefs of Faction. Feb. 23, 2015.
"More Evidence that Depressions Don't Solve Policy Problems." Mischiefs of Faction. Jan. 26, 2015.
"Are Obama's Interactions with Congress Unusually Distant?" Mischiefs of Faction. Jan. 21, 2015.
"President Cuomo Would Have Disappointed Liberals, Like All Democratic Presidents Do." Mischiefs of Faction. Jan. 9, 2015.
"3 Reasons the Tragic Killings By and Of Police Won't Have Big National Partisan Implications." Mischiefs of Faction. Dec. 22, 2014.
"Only Elite Norms, Not Public Opinion, Can Stop America from Torturing Again." Mischiefs of Faction. Dec. 16, 2014.
"Implications of the 2014 Midterm Election Results." Mischiefs of Faction. Nov. 5, 2014.
"There Is an Opportunity to Challenge Clinton From the Left, But It Is on Education, Not Economics." Mischiefs of Faction. Oct. 30, 2014.
"Why Do U.S. Political Parties Lie About Their Histories?" Mischiefs of Faction. Sept. 16, 2014.
"Ezra Klein Gives Political Scientists Some of Their Own Medicine." Mischiefs of Faction. Sept. 2, 2014.
"When Predicting Hillary Clinton's Potential Foreign Policy, Look at More than Just Cheap Talk." Mischiefs of Faction. Aug. 12, 2014.
"U.S. Public Opinion on the Israel-Hamas Conflict Has Little to Do with the Conflict Itself." Mischiefs of Faction. Aug. 1, 2014.
"Yes, Robert E. Lee Supported Slavery, the Confederacy and Its Battle Flag." Mischiefs of Faction. July 22, 2014.
"Adventures in Motivated Reasoning: Circumcision Edition." Mischiefs of Faction. June 23, 2014.
"Spoiler Alert! President Obama Is Not Going to Send Combat Troops to Another Overseas War." Mischiefs of Faction. June 16, 2014.
"Why the Republican Establishment Doesn't Care Much about Centrism in Primary Contests." Mischiefs of Faction. June 10, 2014.
"Gerrymandering Is a Useless Concept. Redistricting Is a Choice Among Values." Mischiefs of Faction. May 22, 2014.
"Parties Are More Consequential than Clever Framing: Estate Tax Edition." Mischiefs of Faction. May 15, 2014.
"Clinton v Bush in 2016 Could Be the Most Political Science-y Presidential Election of All Time." Mischiefs of Faction. May 1, 2014.
"Why Are Conservatives Obsessed with Reagan? He Coincided with Ideological Party Takeover Like No Democratic President Did." Mischiefs of Faction. April 21, 2014.
"Rush Limbaugh is Correct. Stephen Colbert is a Liberal, While Jon Stewart Is Just a Progressive Era Reformer." Mischiefs of Faction. April 16, 2014.
"How Much Should We Care about Political Hypocrisy? The Case of Dianne Feinstein and the CIA." Mischiefs of Faction. March 17, 2014.
"Distrust in the Media and Confirmation Bias." The Monkey Cage. April 27, 2012.
"Why It Matters that People Distrust the Media." The Monkey Cage. April 26, 2012.
"Why Don’t People Trust the Media Anymore? (Part 1)" The Monkey Cage. April 25, 2012.
"What's Fueling Romney's Success?" CNN.com. Jan. 11, 2012.
Hans Noel and I discuss political science concepts illustrated by the Star Wars universe. The Georgetown Office of Communications asked us to help them create this video on the occasion of the release of Star Wars, Episode VII, The Force Awakens.
On election day 2018, the Georgetown Office of Communications asked me to talk about why we hold elections at the beginning of November. Then, they added some fun graphics and produced this video.