by jpitney | Jan 12, 2022 | Congress, Public Service, Staff, Youth
Layla Zaidane at The Fulcrum: Millennials are sweeping into public office: From 2018 to 2020, the United States saw a 266 percent increase in young people running for Congress. In 2021, young people made history with candidates like Nadarius Clark, the youngest...
by jpitney | Jan 8, 2022 | Congress, Public Service, Staff
William Gray at LegBranch.org: In 2011, the Congressional Management Foundation surveyed more than 1,400 congressional staff and asked an open-ended question: What does working in Congress mean to you? They received more than 600 responses and the answers are just as...
by jpitney | Dec 9, 2021 | California Politics, Public Service, Vaccine
Cheryl Clark at Medpage Today: The president of the Medical Board of California described a “terrifying” ambush, threats, and intimidation from four men she said were wearing jackets indicating they were part of “America’s Frontline...
by jpitney | Dec 7, 2021 | Congress, Polarization, Public Service
At AEI, Kevin Kosar talks to Stanford political scientist Andrew Hall: So what, according to your research, is driving polarization in the House? To explain polarization, we have to answer the question: Where have all the moderate candidates gone? My argument...
by jpitney | Nov 29, 2021 | civic virtue, Public Service, Texas
🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/CKIYE7V6v6 — Matthew McConaughey (@McConaughey) November 29, 2021
by jpitney | Oct 6, 2021 | Public Service
David French at The Dispatch: Writing in The Week, Joel Mathis stated the problem well: The democratic process starts at the local level. There are many little-known and ill-paid elected local officials whose motivations have little to do with ideology or ambition....