Fighting over how to define and empower families
How did these struggles helped yield the ascendency of conservative ideology after the 1960s? How might they figure into future realignments?
Judicial vacancies: show us the numbers
New tools allow easy access to and filtering of 12 years of data. How long did George W. Bush take to nominate? President Obama? For the Senate to act?
Inaugural flunks education history, limits aspirations
In an address that otherwise reprised many of the noblest principles from this country's history, President Obama's remarks on education offered only a bleak vision of schools as training grounds for employers. Neither the principle that a good education is an essential requisite for developing active citizens nor the idea that education has intrinsic value independent of its utility in the job market made it into the speech.
When Democrats sang a different tune
25 Democratic and Independent Senators voted to continue Bush tax cuts for 99.3 percent of households. What did they say when those cuts were enacted?