And One Reason Why It’s Not Perfect By Sheri Rivlin and Allan Rivlin, February 2, 2023 Sometimes it seems like every day is Groundhog Day...

Alice Rivlin takes us back to 1982-1983 By Sheri Rivlin and Allan Rivlin January 31, 2023 Today we find ourselves in a familiar pattern....

John Smith's fascinating podcast Searching for Integrity interviewed Allan Rivlin about Divided We Fall, Zen Politics, the House under...

Our last post argued that the divided and chaotic GOP House has no power to require Democrats to negotiate spending cuts in response to...

Have you ever had this nightmare? You are behind the wheel of a 1962 Thunderbird hot-rod in a game of “chicken” on a dark street. You are...

By Alice Rivlin, Sheri Rivlin, and Allan Rivlin With House Republicans calling for a return to “regular order” in passing budget...

The fact that we even started writing this post is an expression of confidence that this impasse will not soon be resolved. It cannot go...

In 2022 we wrote a book about congressional dysfunction, but the 117th Congress that closed out 2022 with a flurry of bipartisan...

President Biden and Congress ended the year with a very good bipartisan budget deal to fund government through the end of the fiscal year...

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https://kbla1580.com/tavis-smiley/?futurishared=6812&station=KBLAAM#.Y4vZE9DD1aY.twitter A great discussion between Allan Rivlin and...

Thank you Bill (Hoagland) and we agree that Alice would feel that this event, and this panel, would feel like a return home to an...

A partial summary of the Divided We Fall Preface and Afterword by Sheri Rivlin and Allan Rivlin prepared for the Brookings Institution...

Sheri Rivlin and Allan Rivlin – President and CEO of Zen Political Research and authors of “Divided We Fall: Why Consensus Matters“...

By Sheri Rivlin and Allan Rivlin At the start of the impeachment hearings it looked like Democrats had settled on the charge of bribery...

Amazon has always seemed to be two steps ahead of the calendar as it built one of the most profitable corporations in the world leaving...

After a long hard contest and days of counting ballots, Democrat Kyrsten Sinema has been declared the winner in the Arizona Senate race...

If newspapers and cable television provide the rough first draft of history, it takes the think tanks about two years to produce the...

Every Democratic candidate should have an economic plan, and this is especially true for candidates running for office in the parts of...