Outside the Beltway

It is not a tool to foster compromise. It is tool of obstruction, plain and simple.

Voting ourselves out of this mess is not so easy

Let me point you to a reform proposal.

Will there be in-fighting? Yes. A break-up? No.

That’s unpossible!

Some Republicans are doing their jobs.

But, still very bad.

Gridlock doesn’t mean government stops. It just shifts who is governing.

How the EC affects our thinking.

What meanings might the Founders have had? How should we understand the term?

If we embrace the Founders to justify the present, let’s think about what we are doing.

I couldn’t help myself.

Having the topic of political reform start to seep into pop culture is a good thing.

Definitions are fun, right?

It is about finding ways to combat minority rule.

Thinking about wildfires and electoral politics.

A game wherein one team has to score more points to win than does the other.

A discussion of what #NeverTrump means, on Sanders v. Trump, and some about the philosophy of voting.