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Citizen forecasting predicts the Democrats will win both the US House and Senate in the 2026 Midterm elections Brian Phelan Thompson Collart finds 39% of citizens predict the Democrats will win both houses of Congress, a 12-percentage point increase over the previous year @lseusablog.bsky.social

Listen to: America as a revisionist power with Professor @phillipspobrien.bsky.social of @uniofstandrews.bsky.social | The Ballpark podcast blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...

The 2026 Midterms: In Arizona and elsewhere, Latino voters are turning away from Trump blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...

California’s billionaire tax ballot initiative could be a breakthrough in the debate over wealth taxes blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...

The 2026 Midterms: @katiepruszynski.bsky.social of @sheffielduni.bsky.social writes on how Trump has turned trust into a political plaything blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...

Citizen forecasting predicts the Democrats will win both the US House and Senate in the 2026 Midterm elections blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...

The leadership we are missing in the United States and the citizenship we must rediscover blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...

In a new article for @lseusablog.bsky.social, Charles Sherwood, author of A Fair Bargain: The Ethics of Negotiation, explores how dishonesty undermines trust in leaders and institutions, and why we need higher ethical standards. 🔗 Read the full post: https://bit.ly/483AqTa

There is no place for dishonesty in business – or in politics blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...

Texas Democrats are testing whether party capacity can continue after an expensive and closely contested election blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...

Moral imagination is key to the survival of US democracy blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...

The 2026 Midterms: How the North Carolina Senate election went from a nailbiter to a snoozer blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...

Nationalized elections are making the 2026 midterms harder to forecast blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...

By turning the midterms into a referendum on himself, Trump risks making his unpopularity a liability for the Republican Party blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...

Office size shapes progressive prosecutors’ ability to advance criminal justice reform blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...

The Washington summit shows that US–China relations require a firmer foundation than the relationship between its two leaders blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...

Trump doesn’t have to prevent the 2026 midterms to seriously undermine American democracy blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...

Why it won’t be a record-breaking midterm year for Republican women in Congress blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...

Listen to Predicting climate change with AI with Tiffany Shaw and @pedramh.bsky.social | The Ballpark podcast blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...

Climate views differ within US racial groups and fall along partisan lines blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...

Donald Trump: Triple Threat corrupter of presidential power blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...

The US was founded as a republic to reflect popular sovereignty and guard against majority faction blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...

The 2026 Midterms: The view from Virginia in a potential “Blue Wave” year blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...

American democracy has continued to decline under Donald Trump. But this may cost the US President as perceptions of poor government performance weaken public support. Read the article by Paul Whiteley @uniessexgov.bsky.social on @lseusablog.bsky.social 👉 blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...

Amidst an ongoing trade war with the US, Canada’s PM Mark Carney is seeking closer relations with the EU, including discussions of associate EU membership. Read analysis on these changing political alliances by @amyverdun.bsky.social on @lseusablog.bsky.social 👉 blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...

A president’s greatness depends on their stewardship of the constitutional order blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...

Mark Carney’s EU associate membership bid reflects deepening Canada-EU ties amid a changing international order writes @amyverdun.bsky.social of @uvic.ca blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...

Behavioural AI and decision-making with Professor Ganna Pogrebna | The Ballpark podcast blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...

Confusing US tariff announcements doubled the decline in trade blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...

Domestic policy choices can build trust between rival nations write @mikegoldfien.bsky.social , @profmickeyj.bsky.social and Roseanne McManus of @pennstateuniv.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...

The 2026 Midterms: Early and mail in voting means that the election starts weeks before November blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...

Why more US economic pressure may not force Iran to concede writes Jack Roush of @lsehy.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...

In Texas, building roads leads to private profit and traffic, at the expense of local budgets blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...

Thirty years after welfare reform, the Trump administration is starving the poor into work blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...

How AI is influencing society with Dr Mona Sloane | The Ballpark podcast blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...

Listen to The Ballpark podcast: AI and the gig economy with Dr Lindsey Cameron blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...

Attacks on the Voting Rights Act have meant falling Latino representation in local office finds @sschmitt.bsky.social of @appalachianstate.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...

The 2026 Midterms: What the Democratic Party can learn from the 1986 Midterms blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...

Changing American politics have given the Supreme Court unprecedented power to support one party’s agenda over another write @wsnead.bsky.social of @swarthmorecollege.bsky.social and @kumar.fyi of @uofilsystem.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...

Undermining the judiciary and rule of law is a key policy of the Trump administration blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...

Listening must be at the centre of medical education so future physicians can better understand their patients’ lives blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...

Platform companies embrace labour regulations to beat their rivals blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...

At 250, exceptionalism remains central to US identity, but America is divided on what that means as never before. Jack Clayton for @lseusablog.bsky.social

Partisanship and racial attitudes have widened white Americans’ divided opinions on Black Lives Matter @mckenziebennett.bsky.social @notredame.bsky.social examines the polarisation of the attitudes of white Americans towards BLM from 2016 to 2024 on @lseusablog.bsky.social

Our new paper on surprising stability of lobbying is featured in the @lseusablog.bsky.social blog

The UK shows that work-based experience can help young people into employment, but the US still needs systems to support it blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...

Partisanship and racial attitudes have widened white Americans’ divided opinions on Black Lives Matter finds @mckenziebennett.bsky.social of @notredame.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...

At 250, exceptionalism remains central to US identity, but America is divided on what that means as never before blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...