(Un)Conventional Wisdom

I hope everyone enjoyed the long weekend made possible by our commemoration of national leaders widely considered weak and ineffectual while in office I rsquo m referring to Presidents rsquo Day or Green Lantern Day as it should be known among political scientists frustrated by those insisting th

The latest (Un)Conventional Wisdom from Robert D. Sullivan

The latest (Un)Conventional Wisdom: Robert D. Sullivan on the schism between so-called conservative Catholics.

Just as many on the left have spent a long time trying to figure out how to achieve universal health care a lot of thinkers on the right are mulling over ways to combat the ills of universal suffrage Making it more difficult to vote or impossible in the case of ex-felons is not enough Some Tea

The Census Bureau released another great time suck on Thursday Interactive maps with data on the 16 8 million Americans who moved from one county to another between 2007 and 2011 Type in any county and you get a map of where new residents are coming from in orange and where the people who used t

The latest (Un)Conventional Wisdom from politics blogger Robert D. Sullivan

Latest (Un)Conventional Wisdom from Robert D. Sullivan

Voter disgust with Congress may be at an all time high, but (Un)Conventional Wisdom blogger Robert D. Sullivan isn’t expecting a throw-out-the-bums election.

It rsquo s usually simplistic to think of an American political party as having a clear agenda for congressional elections Typically both parties are fine with candidates doing whatever works to win the handful of competitive districts The announcement of the Republican Party rsquo s ldquo Cont

State governments shrunk a bit in 2012 according to data released last week by the Census Bureau see press release or PDF report with total revenue dropping by 1 8 percent and expenditures falling by 0 5 percent But there were big differences among states in terms of how much they spent and how