As the IPCC report makes clear, there are now only unknown and unfamiliar alternative futures that we can choose from.

Wendy Schiller: “The only way to produce legislation in this kind of environment is from the top, with party leader coordination."

Powerful states compete and cooperate to shape the rules and institutions of international order. How will the growing effects of climate change affect that behavior?

Conservative rhetoric warning of wage-price spirals is disingenuous.

A recent analysis of the 2020 election by three Democratic groups contained some serious warnings for Democrats.

Research has shown that constituent do not evaluate legislators more favorably for claiming credit for delivering large grants than for delivering tiny ones.

Richard Arenberg: “While some of the rhetoric by Democrats may be a little overheated, the proliferation of outrageous voter suppression laws in red states around the country make a federal response critical."

Ashutosh Varshney: "A very large part of the base is hugely disenchanted because they've lost their loved ones. They've lost their siblings, their parents, their children."

Finance ministers finally seem willing to crack down on avoidance. But the rich may just slip through the loopholes.

Jeff Robbins writes about Liz Cheney for Creators.com

Tyler Jost: "States like to make themselves seem open to negotiation, and it is the other side that is being unreasonable."

An early take on the Biden administration’s climate diplomacy from Jeff D. Colgan, with Thomas N. Hale and Scott M. Moore

Jeffrey Robbins writes about Hamas for Creators.com

Ashutosh Varshney: “Modi’s image will depend on how the mass suffering is interpreted, and whether he can successfully deploy his skills at narrative shifting, but I think he will have to pay a price."

Richard Arenberg: If the filibuster is dead, the Senate becomes like the House.

Foxman, who just turned 81, is being honored in Washington, D.C., this month as part of American Jewish History Month, established by Congress and a presidential proclamation in 2006.

Mao was unmoved by the mass suffering caused by The Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution because, for him, it was superseded by national glory. Something similar is playing out in India.

Prerna Singh: “What Modi is doing is anti-democratic."

President Joe Biden's address to Congress last week wasn't merely a sobering recitation of the nation's most profound wounds and weaknesses, and it wasn't only a summary of the specific proposals he has made in his first 100 days to confront them. It was an old-fashioned call for bipartisanship by one who came of age in a different, better time.

Prerna Singh: "It’s part of the authoritarian playbook. It’s another egregious instance of the BJP regime systematically showing callousness and hubris."

Prerna Singh: India is exporting vaccines to other countries, all of which is amazing and laudable and necessary, but there was no consistent vaccine drive in India.

King's independent, cerebral approach lends him outsized credibility in the Senate, and he rejects the conventional wisdom that bipartisanship in the world's supposedly most deliberative body is dead.

Wendy Schiller: "I think either Cicilline or Langevin would be most likely offered a position in the Biden administration if they were asked to step aside or they did step aside to make room for the other. I think there would be some landing pad for them."

Hot tempers at last week's House hearing on the battle against COVID-19 highlighted again the hatred that America's hard right continues to harbor for Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

Jeffrey Robbins writes about the GOP for Creators.com

Wendy Schiller: “When you’re losing those kinds of senators in the Republican Party, you’re faced with primaries that will be extremely contentious and very conservative."

Wendy Schiller: “Every president has wanted his children or grandchildren to run for office for a long time. Trump is no different."

Joe Biden has tasked the vice president with looking into the root causes of the migrant surge, but many on the Left and Right want immediate action on the current crisis.

Richard Arenberg: “It seems unlikely that Republicans in Congress will support the Biden plan as described because of the size of the price tag and the suggestion that corporate taxes be increased."

Richard Arenberg with Carl Levin: Abolition would be shortsighted, but current rules allow obstructionists too much leeway.

Wendy Schiller: Republicans head to border, Democrats promote aid; both seek to appeal to voters ahead of 2022 midterms

The new administration understands that restoring America's influence abroad requires an end to the coddling of Russia, and that end has begun.

Pressure builds as Democrats see Republican filibusters as main obstacle to next big priorities.

Bonnie Honig writes about race for The Constitutionalist

Wendy Schiller: You typically see higher retirements when there is some sort of party shift.

Rich Arenberg: The House has reviewed many contested elections -- over 100 of them since 1933

Robert Blair with Philip Roessler: Evidence on Chinese and US Aid to Africa from Surveys, Survey Experiments, and Behavioral Games

Margaret Weir: The new Democratic stance is “a long cry from the days of ‘big government is over.'"

Mark Blyth: The idea that Covid-19 changes everything is nonsense that has become fashionable.

How does violence during civil war shape citizens' demand for state-provided security, especially in settings where non-state actors compete with the state for citizens' loyalties? This article draws on Hobbesian theory to argue that in post-conflict countries, citizens who were more severely victimized by wartime violence should substitute away from localized authorities and towards centralized ones, especially the state.

“We can read two pages a minute,” Mary Anne Clarkson, senior assistant legislative clerk, told TPM matter-of-factly. “It won’t take 10 hours.”

This article cites Peter Andreas' book, Killer High: A History of War in Six Drugs.

Wendy Schiller: “The Gina Raimondo narrative is a powerful narrative. It’s a narrative of a homegrown Rhode Island working-class woman."

Jeffrey Robbins writes about Carl Levin for Creators.com

Wendy Schiller: “GOP senators who vote to acquit may be protecting themselves against primary challenges from the more extreme wing of their party in 2022, or even 2024."

Jeffrey Robbins writes for Creators.com

Richard Arenberg: “Republicans in the Congress seem set on opposing the plan with or without the minimum wage increase."

Ashutosh Varshney weighs in during this NDTV segment.

As familiar a figure as Biden has been for the past half-century, it has been easy to sell him short, to somehow overlook the qualities that equip him so well to steer the country through an existential crisis that is medical, economic and civic all at the same time.