The next redistricting cycle, which begins in 2021, will be a frightening and unfettered orgy of stolen partisan advantage
What are some of the barriers to minority candidates running for/winning office?
The polling industry claims to offer live snapshots of what the public thinks. Yet the obsession with polls is reducing politics to market research.
Kansas Democrats are using ranked-choice voting for the 2020 primary election, hoping to increase voter participation and to create fairer voting systems.
It would maximize participation and broad-based appeal, and improve our democracy.
Tuesday’s results were perfectly coherent, a fight over two concepts central to our nation’s origins, its progress, and its future: the promises of and restrictions on political representation and political enfranchisement.
The United States is not the only supposedly democratic country saddled with an undemocratic upper legislative chamber (ours just has the most egregious malapportionment), but Americans have, so far, been the least willing to push back.
Weeks from a crucial election, this lament about voting (or not) is spot on
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What happens when the adults in the room are scarier than the crying baby? Who’s responsible for the last 17 years of American wars that have convulsed the planet? Babies? Teenagers? Grown men acting like babies? Let’s face it: perfectly sober adults
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