Omar Wasow, assistant professor of politics and CSDP faculty associate, gave the keynote address at Princeton University's Martin Luther King Day celebration.

Research on inequality by Nolan McCarty and Michael Barber was cited in an opinion piece by Donna Brazile for CNN.

Markus Prior's research on the contribution of cable television (or the lack thereof) to our polarized politics was described in an article in The Economist and The New Yorker. Prior is co-director of the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics (CSDP) and Associate Professor of Politics and Public Affairs.

In a guest post in the Washington Post/Monkey Cage, Nicholas Carnes argues that, based on his research and that of other former and current CSDP affiliates, the obstacles keeping working-class Americans out of office are far from insurmountable. Carnes is Assistant Professor at Duke University and former CSDP-affiliated graduate student (PhD Politics and Social Policy '11).

Nolan McCarty, writing in the Washington Post/Monkey Cage, kicked off a new series on political polarization with a report from his working group on U.S polarization.