Archive - Undercurrent Events

Reed Galen and Lee Drutman Talk Third Parties

A recording from Lee Drutman and Reed Galen's live video

Jul 14 •

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One "Big Beautiful Bill" and the calculated confidence of unapologetic unpopularity

Or: How participation gaps, policy design, and status-driven voting let Republicans keep doing reverse Robin Hoods.

Jul 3 •

June 2025

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

Jun 9 •

May 2025

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.

May 15 •

April 2025

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

Apr 24 •

March 2025

What I told the Democracy Summit audience last week

I gave a keynote talk. I called it: "Building Back a Better Democracy"

Mar 11 •

February 2025

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.

Feb 19 •

January 2025

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…

Jan 15 •

November 2024

The arc of history is squiggly - and four other takeaways from the 2024 election

This is a moment for imagination and big-picture thinking.

Nov 6, 2024 •

October 2024

Perfectly Balanced, Totally Unstable

The dangerous strangeness of our perennially too-close-for-comfort elections

Oct 30, 2024 •

The presidential campaigns don’t need your $5

And the more they devote themselves to fundraising and advertising, the more broke our democracy gets.

Oct 8, 2024 •

September 2024

We need more (and better) parties

Why a healthy democracy depends on healthy political parties, not nonpartisan elections. Or, why doubling down on the failed median voter theory (and…

Sep 12, 2024 •

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