Recall Elections Are Disruptive And Unnecessary
In an ideal world, today’s Recall Election in Wisconsin would not even be legally possible.
In an ideal world, today’s Recall Election in Wisconsin would not even be legally possible.
Republicans apparently think that re-running the 2008 campaign, just more efficiently or more ruthlessly, will work this time. Here’s why it won’t.
The president has come a long way from his days as a “liberal law professor who campaigned against the Iraq war.”
We, as Americans, tend to have a limited knowledge of the institutional variation that exists across democratic systems around the world.
Yes, it is too hard to amend. A few quick thoughts on the subject.
Michael Fumento becomes the latest prominent conservative to criticize what conservatism has become.
Figuring out how much of the opposition to a black president is based on racism is . . . complicated.
States actually have constitutional authority over the selection of electors, not of the president.
Eduardo Saverin has become a political whipping boy.
A new poll finds that adding Chris Christie to the ticket would fail to deliver New Jersey to the Republicans.
The Founders would never have thought to do more than count people in the Census!
There are a number of problems with the notion that the Federalist Papers provide a perfect guide to the Constitution.
If we taught the Federalist Papers more rigorously would that lead to a shared view of the constitution?
Our psychological and cultural biases make evaluating information and arguments rationally next to impossible.
Parties are in politics primarily to win the vote of the median voter, not to join together and sing Kumbaya.
We should want more voters, not less, if we actually value representaitve democracy.
According to some historians, a President isn’t truly great unless he involves America in a bloody and destructive war.
The Senate didn’t have a productive 2011. Is this just a case of laziness?
We need a lot less fake empathy in politics.
OTB’s comment section as a microcosm of the American political landscape.
Far from being deterimental, there is a case to be made that SuperPACs have actually expended democracy during this election cycle.
This week’s hearings in the Supreme Court caught many proponents of the Affordable Care Act off guard.
Dan Drezner declares that “Policy wonks ignore political science journals at their peril.”
Is the now-familiar refrain that the individual mandate was originally a conservative idea really true?
What walking around knowledge about our political system is necessary to be an informed citizen?
Dharun Ravi was convicted of bias intimidation toward Tyler Clementi. It’s not at all clear that he should have been.
The odds are against anyone who challenges an incumbent President. So, how do you do it?
Can Wall Street predict the outcome of Presidential elections? Not really.