How Big Money Created the Most Polarized Congress in a Century: 5 Charts
"The incredible growth of PACs, the death of vote splitting, and the demise of America's cushiest retirement home."
Every year, the Brookings Institution and the American Enterprise Institute put out the fantastic Vital Statistics on Congress, and this year’s edition lands Tuesday. (Atlantic contributor Norm Ornstein co-authored the report with Tom Mann.) You can check out the entire thing here, with more data than you can possibly imagine on subjects you’ve never considered.