“Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage.”
–H.L. Mencken
TMC Topic Guides
This page lists topic guides compiled from articles published at the Monkey Cage (TMC). Our mission is to connect political scientists and the political conversation by creating a compelling forum, developing publicly focused scholars, and building an informed audience. Using the discipline’s research, we illuminate the news, inform civic discussion, and help make sense of the circus that is politics.
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Highlights
U.S. Politics and Policy
- 2022 U.S. midterm elections
- January 2021 political crisis
- 2020 election
- The Biden administration
- Black Lives Matter
- Civil-military relations (includes global coverage)
- Congress
- The Supreme Court
- Technology, the internet, and politics
- The Trump administration, bureaucratic politics, and expertise
- The war in Afghanistan
- Trade
- U.S. taxation
Regional/Comparative Politics
- Africa
- North Africa
- Politics in Africa
- Public health (global guide with Africa coverage)
- Africa south of the Sahara
- China
- Europe
- Israel-Palestine
- India
- Iraq
- Latin America
- NATO and European security
- North Korea
- Russia and Eurasia
- Saudi Arabia
- Syria
- The Iran nuclear program and U.S.-Iran crises
- Turkey
- Ukraine
Global Issues
- Climate change
- Civil-military relations
- Coronavirus
- Democracy & elections worldwide
- Corruption
- Cybersecurity
- Foreign aid and investment
- Immigration
- NATO and European security
- Nuclear weapons and politics
- Peacekeeping
- Public health
- Race and ethnic politics
- Technology, the internet, and politics
- Trade
TMC is grateful to Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and the Mortara Center for International Studies for supporting this project, and to the Carnegie Corporation, the Democracy Fund, and the Hewlett Foundation for supporting TMC. TMC also thanks Satya Adabala, Isabella Artaza, Jacob Cohen, Tabitha Gillespie, Elizabeth Gutierrez, Sara Hakimi, Alana Hendy, Robin Huang, Agnieszka Krotzer, Kathryn Long, Michael Losacco, Mica Maltzman, Julio Salmeron-Perla, and Noah Smith for their help preparing and updating the topic guides.