- December 11, 2023
Schar School Visiting Professor Bill Bolling, who cast a record-setting number of tiebreaking votes while serving as Virginia’s lieutenant governor, offers insight into the unique role during a moment of divided government provided to U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, who just cast her 32nd tiebreaker in the U.S. Senate. With this vote, Harris, in only two-plus years, surpassed the mark set by John C. Calhoun.
- November 29, 2023
Pearlstein blames Congressional gridlock on “political fantasies.”
- November 28, 2023
Mark Katz offers two theories to explain why Russian President Vladimir Putin suddenly called for an end to what, in a departure from past practice, he referred to as the “war” in Ukraine. Katz suggests that Putin might recognize the costs of the war and genuinely want to end it; he may also want to incentivize Western governments to stop supporting Ukraine at current levels.
- November 20, 2023
A major story in the Post breaks down all the ways the Senate is designed, intentionally or not, to favor particular populations. In a telling quote, the Schar School’s Jennifer N. Victor confirms it.
- September 26, 2023
A pandemic-era boom has fundamentally changed the face of American home schooling, transforming a group that has for decades been dominated by conservative Christians into one that is more racially and ideologically diverse, a Washington Post-Schar School poll finds.
- November 14, 2023
Voice of America explains how the GOP is hamstrung on a single wedge issue: abortion. The Schar School’s Jeremy Mayer confirms it for the global audience.
- October 31, 2023
Schar School’s Mark N. Katz describes what Russia stands to gain from the rising tensions in the Middle East.
- October 30, 2023
Collecting our thoughts: What were Schar School scholars thinking in October? Clearly, we had a lot on our minds.
- October 25, 2023
New York Times: Schar School Distinguished Visiting Professor Michael J. Morell is quoted about two wars.
- October 24, 2023
Abortion has surged as a key issue for women and Democrats for the November 7 legislative elections in Virginia, the last state in the South to hold out against restrictions on the procedure in the year since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, according to a Washington Post-Schar School poll.