My prior research with Joe Soss and Richard Fording has shown that work requirements for welfare programs have not led to reductions in poverty and improved economic well-being among recipients…. 
The election of Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States has been nothing short of controversial as he has built his presidential platform around stoking fears through…
While campaigning for the Presidency in Iowa in January 2016, Donald Trump declared, “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose any…
The morning after Election Day on November 8, 2016 was supposed to be one of reckoning for Republicans in their support of an unpopular and divisive Presidential nominee. Instead, Democrats…
Presumptive Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump and his supporters have been playing up the possibility of a spillover effect from the recent British vote to leave the European Union. The…
House Speaker Paul Ryan said yesterday that he was “not ready” to endorse Donald Trump for president. This is a serious moment for the Republican Party; the presumed presidential nominee does…
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