The one-gun household is disappearing from American life along with one-car garages single-family homes with single family bathrooms and other bygone markers of the middle class That seems to be the best explanation for polling data showing that the percentage of homes with guns has dropped sign

How we define poverty has political implications.

Secrecy feeds into distrust that already corrodes our election system

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

There's not much Clinton can do to change how voters feel about Democrats.

Charge of insufficient love tends to be directed at those fighting for change

Can a new bipartisan coalition break the 'tough on crime' consensus?

No one is supposed to go home empty-handed in American politics.

A lesson in the 'invisible synecdoche'

If you rsquo re a fan of political gaffes you would have been in heaven in 1980 That rsquo s when a major presidential candidate was ridiculed for saying ldquo All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk rdquo Scientists also howled when he dismissed the need