Congress Articles

As usual, it has been an eventful week in American politics. And, as ever, everything that happens can be best understood by looking through the lens of polarisation. There is seemingly no event, domestic or foreign, trivial or of global importance, that does not end...

Midterms The midterms are just 10 weeks away, but there has been surprisingly little coverage in the national media. That is not to say that there has not been a lot by British standards, because there has, but the abundance of world crises over this summer (including...

The path to victory in 2012 looks tough for the Democratic incumbent, but Barack Obama has won as the underdog before and could well do so again, writes Anthony Painter Political scientists are, of course, no such thing. There are very rarely replicable experiments in...

Labour in government recognised the central importance of food to our economy and way of life. We set up a Cabinet Office enquiry into the food sector: Food 2030 was the first national plan for food since the second world war. We took action to improve supply chains...