Outside the Beltway

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.

Ultimately, it isn’t a very good one.

Current attempts to take power away from the state executive branch illustrates a lot of what I have been writing about for years.

Forget the “republic v. a democracy” abstraction. The numbers show some serious flaws in translating popular will into government.

A reference point for the future.

Negotiations over government formation is not a crisis.

In which I use a lot of words to say hello.

Dare I say: hate the game, not the players?

Looking into uncontested and partially contest House districts from the 2014 cycle.

In the first entry in this series we looked at a basic question of democratic theory. In this one, we look at whether the EC ever worked as the Framers intended.