The Biggest Social Issues to Watch in 2024 - Governing
The Biggest Social Issues to Watch in 2024. Legislatures across the nation are confronting several social issues including crime, drug use, immigration and poverty. These issues will continue to ...
How America’s Three Constitutions Define the Nation - Governing
May 16, 2021 · The Formal Constitution The formal 1787 Constitution needs little description. There it is, 4,534 words, encapsulating the civic intentions of 55 white men who deliberated, debated, argued, and ...
The Pros and Cons of Privatizing Government Functions
Nov 29, 2010 · Problems from poorly conceived contracts can create cost increases that surpass the costs of in-house services, and if there’s shoddy contract oversight, a government is vulnerable to corruption ...
Five Policy Issues to Watch in 2024 - Governing
In 2024, several education issues will carry over from 2023, including school choice debates and parental rights arguments around book banning and preferred names/pronouns — as well as increased ...
The Rise, Fall and Mutation of Political Machines - Governing
A simple way of explaining what happened in south Jersey this year is that a very large cohort of blue-collar voters suddenly and unexpectedly shed their loyalties. One thing we know about ...
Why Does America Have Primaries? - Governing
May 28, 2022 · The original purpose of primaries, they say, was to make government more responsive to the will of the American people. Instead, they argue, primaries have hijacked government on behalf of ...
Life Tenure on the Supreme Court: Appointments and ... - Governing
The Trouble with Lifetime Tenure (Ep. 45) The Future in Context. 0:00 14:36. 30 Mar 27, 2022. With hearings underway to fill an opening on the Supreme Court, it may be useful to look back on the ...
It Took Decades for America to Become This Divided - Governing
Dec 23, 2020 · Educational attainment has emerged as one of the key divides in American politics. Trump dominated white male voters without college degrees, according to exit polls, while Biden took 55 percent ...
What Painted Us So Indelibly Red and Blue? - Governing
August 3, 2021 •. Alan Ehrenhalt. 2020 U.S. election results. (Shutterstock) “We’re not a collection of red and blue states,” Barack Obama is famously supposed to have said in 2004. “We ...
Maps: What’s the Real Red and Blue Balance of State Government?
Color is determined by a weighted average of the percent of seats held by a party in each of a state's three branches of government. States with more offices controlled by Republicans are shown in ...