Did Redistricting Reform Fail in Ohio?
Ohio's supposed reforms left lawmakers in charge of the mapmaking process, and a gerrymandered map was the predictable result.
Ohio's supposed reforms left lawmakers in charge of the mapmaking process, and a gerrymandered map was the predictable result.
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Without judicial review, liberals confronting a Republican-controlled legislature will have no opportunity to seek constitutional redress in federal court.
Using "we" implies a collective responsibility, creates the false impression that most people are on board, and hints that we'll share equally in the benefits.
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Senate Democrats should avoid taking the easy, undemocratic way out.
"We need to break up the duopoly, and the mechanical way to break up the duopoly is by shifting to open primaries and ranked choice votings so that every perspective has a shot."
Proving that claim requires more than reckless rhetoric, which is constitutionally protected.
If Democrats' voting rights bills are blocked, Biden says, "we have no choice but to change the Senate rules, including getting rid of the filibuster."
Jay Inslee says we should make it a crime for politicians to lie about election results. What could go wrong?
A World After Liberalism details the rise of a young right that finds reactionary ideas relevant and appealing.
Shrink the federal waistline for healthier communities.
Having to collect as many as 20,000 signatures for a House race was not considered a "severe" burden by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals.
An old strategy that’s worked for Democrats before may work again.
According to a recent poll, only 22 percent of people believe that the current state of the economy is "good" or "excellent."
There are good reasons to think polls grossly exaggerate the number of Americans who support political violence.
Ignorance and bias played a major role in the attack on the Capitol and in the continuing belief of many Republicans that Biden didn't really win the 2020 election. The issue is part of the broader problem of political ignorance and bias, which is by no means confined to any one side of the political spectrum.
As awful as things are, Trump is not Milošević, Republicans are not unified behind him, Stacey Abrams is not a hero, and every day is not January 6.
The Capitol riot was awful, but it shouldn't serve as an excuse to violate civil liberties.
Experts across the political spectrum support ways to forestall future efforts to use Congress to overturn presidential election results.
This should be a high priority for the current Congress
There are not many subjects on which Professors McConnell, Pildes, Foley and Smith agree.
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For decades, libertarians have focused on illiberalism coming from the political left. But authoritarianism has taken root among many conservatives across the world.
Virginia is moving on without the Democratic duo.
Hungary's brand of nationalism generates not just cronyist domestic policy but tawdry foreign policy as well.
It sucked for avoidable reasons.
Politicians and cops found creative ways to dodge responsibility in 2021.
Politics isn’t going away, so we can at least try to make it less bad.
The bills call for reforms that would be nearly impossible to implement and will not prevent a repeat of 2020.
If we can’t learn to leave each other alone, the country may have a violent meltdown.
China's economic reforms were bottom-up, not top-down.
California's leaders can take the recent rise in property crime seriously without repeating the same "tough on crime" mistakes of the past.
The octogenarian columnist has a lot to say about happiness and history in the United States.
“We have been through horrific things, but I’m still proud of being Uyghur," says Tursunay Ziyawudun, a survivor of China's torture camps.
It's a fairly benign thing to say. And yet it's a landmine in our media landscape.
When it comes to political polarization, it's confirmation bias all the way down.
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Will the Supreme Court step in?
The breakout Netflix series contains critiques of a decidedly "anti-capitalist" political and economic system that's haunted the Korean Peninsula.
The report doesn't endorse court-packing or term limits. But it's generally more favorable to the latter than the former. It also provides valuable overview of a wide range of SCOTUS-related issues.
When it comes to drawing congressional districts, concerns about the legitimacy of democracy seemingly go out the window.
During a speech to a conservative group this month, Hawley depicted a decline in masculinity as one of the nation's foremost problems. Really?
After doing the jobs of teacher, coach, and cafeteria monitor for more than a year, many parents resented being told to sit down and shut up.