Published every two years, The Almanac of American Politics is the definitive guide to understanding the forces that shape American politics.

This event was the fourth installment of AEI's series, Politics Watch.

In the lead-up to the first New Hampshire debate of the 2012 election season on Monday, June 13, the following American Enterprise Institute (AEI) political experts will be available to discuss the debate and its political implications.

At the next American Enterprise Debate, held on Capitol Hill, Ruy Teixeira, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and the Century Foundation, will argue that America's demography is shifting in a direction that permanently benefits the Democratic Party. AEI resident fellow Michael Barone will counter that neither party has a natural majority in an age of open-field politics.

Here are a couple of things to keep in mind about Newt Gingrich, as he leads in polls for the Republican presidential nomination nationally and in Iowa and South Carolina and may be threatening Mitt Romney's lead in New Hampshire. One is that he is an autodidact. A second is that he has incredible perseverance.

In anticipation of President Obama's budget reform speech on Wednesday, April 13, several AEI scholars will be available to comment on the economic and political implications of the speech: Andrew Biggs, John H. Makin, Vincent Reinhart, Alan Viard, Michael Barone, Karlyn Bowman, and Norman J. Ornstein.

As budget negotiations between Democrats and Republicans stall, the possibility of a government shutdown on March 4 rapidly increases.

Since its inception in 1965, America's federally established official poverty rate (OPR) has been the single most important statistic used by policymakers and concerned citizens to evaluate success or failure in the nation's efforts to alleviate poverty. In his newly released examination of this widely quoted measure, The Poverty of...