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At a recent congressional hearing on “the Chinese Communist Party’s political warfare,” U.S. House Representative Jasmine ...

Teachers told him it was unlikely a child could slip or tumble from that great a height without pushing or prompting.

Elections have become nearly synonymous with democracy. We invest so much hope, energy, and money in elections and keep ending up with out-of-touch politicians, legislative gridlock, and violent ...

Drutman can’t possibly be right that the two-party system is “the whole ballgame.” The hyperpartisanship and dysfunctional politics that concerns him is happening not just in countries with two-party ...

Drutman is a rarity in American politics: a process-oriented reformer who is also a cheerleader for political parties. Ever since the Gilded Age, reformers aiming to fiddle with rules, clean up ...

Drutman makes a persuasive and important case about both the need and the strategy for moving beyond a sclerotic two-party system. His core recommendation—reviving fusion voting to empower more ...

Drutman is partly right: the “two-party doom loop” threatens American democracy and structural reform is needed. But his framework can’t explain how authoritarian movements have seized governing power ...

Single-member districts are the real issue. Political competition is a function of electoral rules. Just as a duopolistic market does not come about by chance, a party system confined to only two ...

The measure of any reform proposal is twofold. Is it a good idea, and is it possible? Restoring fusion is also a refreshingly modest reform. Unlike proposals to abolish the Electoral College or permit ...