

Nonhierarchical Parties and the Problems of Candidate Selection
American parties are coordination problems with shared branding.
American parties are coordination problems with shared branding.
This is as close as we get to Garland saying “Eff around, find out!”
“America can survive the demagogues themselves, it’s their audience that will kill us.”
Can American democracy survive its information bubbles?
What should conservatives who can’t support the party of Trump do?
Assuming they had the votes, should Democrats carve out yet another exception?
Yet another reminder of the pathologies of American institutions.
Tweaking the message and getting out the vote don’t matter as much as strategists think.
They’re taking their eye off the ball.
The NYT and CA41 and yet another example of telling the wrong story.
The President continues his recent penchant for saying the quiet part out loud.
The combination of a horrendous rollout and a social media onslaught was disastrous.
Quite often, political fights are about attitudes rather than issues and polices.
Ezra Klein discusses the dynamics of American conservatism in historical perspective. Plus, he helps illustrate a key problem that we have in thinking about American politics (IMHO).
Is harassing judges, mayors, Senators, and the like in their private lives just free speech?
More on primaries with a foray into Madison and the general politics of power-seekers and incentives.
And yet the state still extracted their pound of flesh
Added historical context to ongoing conversations about American democracy.
Brussels has gotten ahead of Washington in regulating mostly American-based Internet companies.
Seeing no way to win under their own label, they’ve called a Hail Mary.
Our representation problems are far, far more about structure than they are about the messaging of the parties.