Democrats’ agenda will be set by their ability to organize and compromise — not by the socialist, progressive or centrist factions all claiming victory
By SoRelle Wyckoff Gaynor, Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Politics, University of Virginia, The Conversation · November 10, 2026
The future of the newly ascendant Democratic party has been projected onto who gets elected to lead the party in Congress. But the party’s direction and agenda is more complex than that.
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After midterm rout, Republicans can still confirm a Supreme Court justice, but at what cost?
By Paul M. Collins Jr., Professor of Legal Studies and Political Science, UMass Amherst · 3h ago
US national debt keeps rising after years of tax cuts – and this will make policymaking all the more difficult
By Hinckley Jones-Sanpei, Public Policy Researcher, University of Denver · 8h ago
When a Walmart closes, what happens to nearby stores?
By Vivek Astvansh, Associate Professor of Quantitative Marketing and Computational Data Science, Binghamton University, State University of New York, Preetinder Kaur, Assistant Professor of Marketing, University of Guelph, Pushpinder Gill, Assistant Professor of Marketing, Toronto Metropolitan University · 8h ago