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How I updated my views on ranked choice voting
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How did American democracy become a broken game without winners? And what should we do about it?
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The state of our democracy is cracking and evaporating
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What I told the Democracy Summit audience last week
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So you want to start a new political party that “actually represents the 80% in the middle”? Good luck.
An open letter to Elon Musk
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Doomier and Loopier: Why our two-party system will not – and cannot - self-correct on its own.
We need major electoral reform and we need it now. A party system problem demands a party system solution.
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Are you being served? How proportional multi-member districts could improve your relationship with government
Notes on a new white paper on constituent service and electoral reform
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What I told the Democracy Summit audience last week
I gave a keynote talk. I called it: "Building Back a Better Democracy"
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The state of our democracy is cracking and evaporating
A guide to the thermodynamics of our constitutional crisis. And how to phase change out of it.
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How did American democracy become a broken game without winners? And what should we do about it?
Support for democracy in America has fallen to alarming lows, even as voters desperately seek change. Proportional representation could re-energize our…
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The arc of history is squiggly - and four other takeaways from the 2024 election
This is a moment for imagination and big-picture thinking.
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Perfectly Balanced, Totally Unstable
The dangerous strangeness of our perennially too-close-for-comfort elections
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The presidential campaigns don’t need your $5
And the more they devote themselves to fundraising and advertising, the more broke our democracy gets.
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Deep forces are shaping our democracy. Change happens slowly. Then all at once.
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