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Minneapolis Has Three of Four Ingredients for a Turning Point
A cascade may be forming. But does it have anywhere to land?
 • Lee Drutman
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Live with Joe Walsh
A recording from Lee Drutman and Joe Walsh's live video
 • Lee Drutman and Joe Walsh
Reflections on the five most popular Undercurrent Events of 2025
And the one piece I had the most fun writing. A year in review, Undercurrents style
 • Lee Drutman
The next era could come sooner than you think
This Thanksgiving, let's be thankful for the possibility of renewal
 • Lee Drutman and Grant Tudor
How fusion voting builds the new parties that can break the two-party doom loop
Some reforms just rearrange the gridlock. This one unlocks the pieces that matter.
 • Lee Drutman
Politics Keeps Driving Out the People Who Want to Reform It
Jared Golden is the latest problem-solving politician to decide Congress isn’t worth the cost. And so the doom loop takes another turn.
 • Lee Drutman
We are Still Living in the Doom Loop
And it will almost certainly continue to get worse before it gets better.
 • Lee Drutman
How Democrats could win a shutdown fight, and why they won’t
Notes on a theory of strategic conflict (Or: why Democrats should stop rehearsing Bach fugues for a punk rock battle of the bands)
 • Lee Drutman
Why America Has the World's Oldest Politicians
How our creaky electoral system created the most advanced gerontocracy on earth.
 • Lee Drutman
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Undercurrent Events
Deep forces are shaping our democracy. Change happens slowly. Then all at once.
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