4 Oct, 2021
Improve democracy: Close the college
Conventional wisdom tells schoolchildren that the US was the first modern democracy, modeled to some degree after the Greek experiment from a couple thousand years ago...
4 Oct, 2021
31 May, 2017
Strip and flip: Democracy in a cage
“The wound burst open in November. History, suddenly, could no longer be avoided. Reality could no longer be avoided…” Robert...
18 Nov, 2016
How to Scrap the Electoral College
“Sixteen years ago, as the 2000 presidential election recount in Florida transfixed the nation, the newly elected Senator Hillary Rodham...
10 Nov, 2016
Our worst nightmare has come to pass
“The American people voted for Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump by about 225,000 votes. But Trump was right: the system...