Outside the Beltway

The convergence of design flaws in the constitution and a flawed leader have brought us to brink of an electoral crisis.

Having failed to prevent or contain it, aggressive stupidity is now washing over us.

A too-long discourse on how courts should function.

Lee Drutman’s Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop

Not that one. The other one.

How to translate understandable frustration at injustice into tangible reform?

The conversation continues. (Warning: it is over 3000 words).

A further attempt to explain how party is such a key variable.

Who can keep count?

Cable news “experts” frequently aren’t.

Schools were going to be open today. They’re closing after parent pressure.

A law professor makes a bad argument in favor of a pet policy.

It comports with the polling.

How Iowa works.

The literature on term limits is not a favorable one.

Democratic Congressman Jeff van Drew of New Jersey is reportedly switching parties

Alliance to party trumps alliance to branch.

A new report details the extent to which the eighteen-year Afghanistan War has been marked by mistakes, and lies by the government to cover-up the fact that we went to war without a clear understanding of what we were doing.

Former Vice-President Joe Biden continues to hold a strong lead in South Carolina even while slipping in other early states.

One political scientist says yes. A bunch of others say wait, what?

A big win for ranked-choice voting in the Big Apple as voters approve a referendum that will bring ranked-choice voting to the nation’s most populous city.

Republicans in general and Donald Trump in particular suffered a big loss in the Kentucky Governor’s race.

Former North Caroline Senator Kay Hagan has died,