
Jonathan M. Ladd
Jonathan M. Ladd is an associate professor in the McCourt School of Public Policy and the Department of Government at Georgetown University, as well as a nonresident senior fellow in the Governance Studies Program at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of Why Americans Hate the Media and How it Matters (Princeton University Press, 2012).
Latest articles by Jonathan M. Ladd


A good event for the upper tier of candidates, a bad one for Biden, and a forgettable one for the ones you’ve already forgotten.


While the Electoral College is a stranger, more poorly designed institution, the Senate poses much bigger challenges going forward.




What the 2016 presidential election taught me about America’s polarization problem.


Policy? What is this policy you speak of?


Trump uses three main tactics to exploit the conventions of nonpartisan journalism.


If the Trump campaign could go from incompetent to just worse than average, it would have a shot at winning.


Trump is running one of them but not the other.


Things that occurred at conventions many decades ago are much more damaging now.


Donald Trump is creating a great TV show but a bad convention.