"Anyone watching Congress trying to negotiate the U.S. budget might wonder who could possibly have designed such a process. Thanks ...
Diagnoses of the troubles of Congress usually focus on the three P’s: people, parties, and polarization. Tim LaPira, Lee Drutman, and ...
"[T]his has become Congress's standard operating procedure for regulatory policy in recent years: Drop a daring and attractive-sounding mandate that ...
"The executive branch's growth in size and influence means more concentrated power and less democratic accountability. Each new exercise of ...
"Having a national, geographically representative legislature often feels inevitable, but in historical fact, it is an arrangement that arose in ...
"Properly understood, however, Congress is no anachronism. The very features that would-be reformers find most exasperating — its messiness, balkiness, and cacophony — are ...
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