The GOP is actually pretty healthy at the moment, despite some public rhetoric to the contrary.
Republicans who admit Joe Biden won the election fair and square are being driven from the party.
Assessing Republican strategic positioning (and the incentives in our system).
The President has overturned decades of US foreign policy and alienated a NATO ally for, well, reasons.
A recent report shows 78 of 435 seats in the US House are truly competitive.
Fulfilling a campaign promise and keeping the discussion alive.
National Review’s Kevin D. Williamson advocates for less democracy in America.
Another entry in the “stunning, but not surprising” category of political observations.
How well do single-seat districts lead to representation? (And of what?)
Judges are pressuring prosecutors to strike deals, most of which will be for misdemeanors.
Our current forms of collective action on guns have failed us.
Multiple indicators point to a decline in the representativeness of the American system.
Appoint more Asian American and Pacific Islanders. Or else!
The lack of common understandings and shared assumptions makes political conversations challenging.
Our insistence on relying on an 18th Century understanding of electoral systems is our ongoing bane (if one values representative government).
Yes, partisanship is real. And it influences more than just voting behavior.
Defense of the filibuster tend to be a combo of mistakes and mythology.
The fixes worsen the stated problem (more on Iowa and other states’ attempts to restrict voting).
HR1 is a national approach to expanding voter access. State legislatures are trying to both expand and restrict the vote as well.
A story that is both unserious and yet emblematic of our age in a serious way.
A CPAC speaker and the return of the problem of the Heritage electoral fraud database.
The man most famous for getting screwed out of a Supreme Court seat has a more interesting backstory.
America’s institutions are undemocratic but only some of them are a product of the Constitution.