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Generational Change is Coming to Washington

Generation X will take control of Congress soon, and they will change American politics forever. Two new online seminars will introduce you to generational theory and how generations predictably transform Congress.

November 10, 2014
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Coalitions of the Motivated

Ideologies are irrational and subjective because that’s the way people are too. Watch our new video series on the psychology behind political ideology.

September 15, 2014
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The New Skepticism in American Foreign Policy

The nation is turning inward. The American public is in no mood for wars of choice, interventions in foreign conflicts, and casual displays of military might. Our foreign policy goals are becoming less ambitious, and Americans are more focused on domestic issues than global affairs.

July 7, 2014
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Sound of Silents: How the Silent Majority Put Big Money in Charge of Washington

1978 was the year business interests and wealthy elites seized control of the legislative agenda Washington. But they had help from a rising cohort of pro-business leaders in both parties. Here’s how the Silent Generation gave us four decades of skyrocketing inequality and put us on the path to oligarchy.

April 30, 2014
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Wall Street’s Persecution Complex

America’s rich imagine themselves to be under violent siege — facing a mortal threat of some kind, usually from the progressive or populist left. To see what’s really going on, you have to look at Wall Street’s persecution complex through the lens of psychology.

January 26, 2014
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Why Millennials Won’t Fix Washington Anytime Soon

Millennials will not begin to gain significant influence in Congress until the late 2020s, at least fifteen years from now.  It’s up to Baby Boomers and Gen Xers to fix Congress and make Washington work again.

November 18, 2013
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boom goes the government

To really understand the politics of this moment, you can’t just look at a single generation — you have to look at all the generations alive and active in Congress today and how they relate to each other.

September 30, 2013
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tutors for tots

Early childhood tutoring represents the next step in the evolution of Generation X parenting. Reacting in part to their own childhood as “latch-key” kids and under-protected toddlers, Generation X-aged parents (born 1961 to 1981) are instead forming tight, protective, and in some cases smothering relationships with their children, tentatively dubbed the Plural Generation.

August 15, 2013
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that emerging demographic majority

It’s no secret why five conservative justices struck down a key section of the Voting Rights Act. Blacks and other racial minorities vote in overwhelming numbers for Democratic candidates. As even conservatives now acknowledge, Republicans can no longer win national elections if blacks and Hispanics turn out to vote in […]

June 25, 2013
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book review: millennial majority

Millennial Majority is a recap of the 2012 presidential election from a generational perspective. It confirms many of the author’s own predictions made in their earlier works. And it’s exactly the kind of clear-headed, data-driven analysis that smart political strategists would do well to heed.

June 21, 2013
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