Aug 19, 2020
This week marks the centennial of women’s enfranchisement in the United States and women have never been so politically powerful—or politically divided with men.
The “sex gap” in partisanship and voter turnout continues to widen. Once willing to defer the work of politics to men, women now have a 4 percentage...
Aug 5, 2020
The amount of money in politics seems to grow every year. Spending by outside groups reached a record of half billion dollars in the 2016 elections cycle, and lobbying expenditures regularly exceed $3 billion annually.
But economists Marianne Bertrand and Matilde Bombardini argue that a lot of corporate influence is...