To combat the "vampires" of our society and to isolate the systematic ways in which our once productive industries and our government have been breached, Ratigan provides readers with a set of values that together form the answer for how each of us can not only understand what has gone...

A common narrative is that COVID-19 cost Trump re-election. We do not find supporting evidence; if anything, the pandemic helped Trump. However, we find substantial evidence that voters abandoned Trump in counties with large increases in health insurance coverage since the Affordable Care Act,...

Intro -- U.S. POLITICAL PROGRAMS: FUNCTIONS AND ASSESSMENTS -- U.S. POLITICAL PROGRAMS: FUNCTIONS AND ASSESSMENTS -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- SENATE CONSIDERATION OF PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATIONS: COMMITTEE AND FLOOR PROCEDURE -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- RECEIPT AND REFERRAL -- COMMITTEE PROCEDURES...