The national partisan shift back toward the Democrats since 2024 has put electoral territory that had recently slipped away from the party back within its grasp.

As Democrats continue to lead in the polls heading into the midterm elections, the Republican case for optimism increasingly hinges on the party’s apparent advantages in independent spending resources...

As polling results in pivotal races continue to favor Democratic candidates in this year’s elections by increasing margins, the 2026 midterms are starting to feel distinctly reminiscent of 2018—when D...

Aside from the predictable cheerleading of reliably pro-Republican outlets, media treatment of this week’s midterm convention in Dallas has been critical or mocking from the moment that it was first a...

I vote the issues. You vote the clothes.

I vote the issues. You vote the clothes.

Voting this year? OK, Boomer!

Voting this year? OK, Boomer!

The GOP's hostility to expert judgment has a political cost.

The GOP's hostility to expert judgment has a political cost.

“Unless the president is unusually popular, the party holding the White House will suffer significant losses in off-year elections” is a very well-established pattern, so nothing about the Democratic ...

“Unless the president is unusually popular, the party holding the White House will suffer significant losses in off-year elections” is a very well-established pattern, so nothing about the Democratic ...

“Unless the president is unusually popular, the party holding the White House will suffer significant losses in off-year elections” is a very well-established pattern, so nothing about the Democratic ...

Sen. Elissa Slotkin's aversion to using "oligarchy" summarizes the Dems’ crisis.

In this podcast discussion, Grossmann and Hopkins argue that educated liberals are winning the culture war.

Education has become one of the most defining differences between America's political parties.

We'll talk to David Hopkins about our education divide and its political impacts. His new book, with co-author Matt Grossman, is "Polarized by Degrees."

Our biggest political divide these days isn’t race or gender but education - and that division is only getting worse. We talk to the co-author of a new book that offers the single best explanation we’

How education is transforming culture and culture is transforming politics

538’s Galen Druke and professors Matt Grossman and David Hopkins discuss the Diploma Divide and whether college degrees have become a deciding factor in political affiliation.

One of the most important consequences of Donald Trump's political ascendance in 2016 was the effect it had on the political engagement of women.

(2022) "Diploma Divide: Educational Attainment and the Realignment of the American Electorate," forthcoming in Political Research Quarterly   Educ ...

Democrats receive increasing levels of support from college-educated Americans, but this has triggered a populist backlash and sharpened polarization.

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In both substance and style, Democrats partied like it's 2008

Like other presidential candidates in the past, she's thinking about more than just winning the election.

Is democracy served when violating established procedural norms actually gives most citizens what they want?

What can we learn about politics from another unprecedented event?

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