

On American Parties
More on primaries with a foray into Madison and the general politics of power-seekers and incentives.
More on primaries with a foray into Madison and the general politics of power-seekers and incentives.
Our representation problems are far, far more about structure than they are about the messaging of the parties.
Pundits like Thomas Friedman struggle with premature prognostication.
A bloc of moderates is not coming to a Senate near you.
A provision of the 14th Amendment to keep Civil War generals out of office is back in play.
Apparently, getting her elected President is not a high enough priority in the Biden White House.
American cheese will henceforth be known as liberté cheese. And not because of the metric system.
It hasn’t changed in over 100 years (but the population sure has).
The post really isn’t about Sinema as much as it about a theory of poltiics.
National Review’s Kevin D. Williamson advocates for less democracy in America.
Another entry in the “stunning, but not surprising” category of political observations.
Yes, partisanship is real. And it influences more than just voting behavior.
America’s institutions are undemocratic but only some of them are a product of the Constitution.
It is not a tool to foster compromise. It is tool of obstruction, plain and simple.
The bane of the Trump presidency is already thwarting President Biden.
Granted, there are more than two. But from a political science/political history POV, these two stick out in my mind.
Was Trump’s attempt to overturn the outcome a one-off or a sign of things to come?