In search of: 1 Senator to Save Democracy
By Shutting Down the Senate There is only one way to fix the Senate and democracy: stop consenting to dysfunctional rules and obstruct in the name of stopping obstruction. American… Read more »
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The End of Obstruction
The Path Toward Majority Rule in the U.S. Congress The U.S. Senate majority can end routine obstruction — as the U.S. House majority did 130 years ago. Representative Thomas Reed,… Read more »
The French Presidential Election is Not the U.S. Presidential Election
The 2017 French presidential election has some resemblance to the U.S. 2016 Presidential contest: An anti-immigrant, nationalist espousing populist rhetoric surging in the polls (Marine LePen in the role of… Read more »
But Can She Govern?
With less than a week to go before Election Day, it looks like Hillary Clinton is almost certain to win, despite Trump’s recent surge in the polls and the FBI… Read more »
Fair Treatment of Political Parties: the Gap Between International Standards and US Practice
In 1990, following the collapse of the Communist countries of Eastern Europe, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) convened a meeting of its member states, including all the… Read more »
The “Two-Party System”
We hear often that America has a “two-party system,” but most people don’t understand that state and Federal laws favoring (what I will call) the two official parties are without precedent among peer democracies; that the… Read more »
How Republicans Could Stop Trump (and Clinton)
Many, if not most, elected Republicans have fallen into line behind Trump, who is now within striking distance of the White House following last week’s convention bounce. However, some Republican officials… Read more »
Why “President Trump” is a Threat to U.S. Democracy
A President Trump is a threat to U.S. democracy for two major reasons: despite the intentions of the Framers of the Constitution, the U.S. president has become extremely powerful due to… Read more »
Republican Party Platform Supports Fixing the Electoral College!
Sorry, that headline, although accurate, is a bit outdated. The Republican Platform called for reforming the electoral college three times: 1948: “We favor a revision of the procedure for the election… Read more »
American Democracy and the Rise of Trump
Andrew Sullivan says that the rise of Trump is the result of too much democracy. First he claims that the American political system was designed to thwart democracy: To guard our democracy… Read more »