Ask a despairing pundit or member of Congress how to fix our politics, and there’s a decent chance they’ll offer this simple bromide: “We need to open the primaries. Let independents vote in primaries.”
I get the intuition. If “open t...
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Ask a despairing pundit or member of Congress how to fix our politics, and there’s a decent chance they’ll offer this simple bromide: “We need to open the primaries. Let independents vote in primaries.”
I get the intuition. If “open t...
(Editor’s note: This piece is adapted from my 2021 report on redistricting commissions)
(Editor’s note: This piece is adapted from my 2021 report on redistricting)
The gerrymandering wars of the late 2020s are ugly ugly ugly. Maximum warf...