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  • Sorting, Polarization, And Gridlock: Policy Finds A Way

    [su_pullquote align=”right”]Legislative gridlock hasn’t stopped policy from being made, it’s now just being made outside of the normal channels in ways strain our constitutional and political system.[/su_pullquote]American government is broken. Supermajoritarian institutions in the United States, most notably the Senate, have created legislative gridlock and frustrated majorities. The Senate effectively requires 60 votes to pass…

  • How Polarized is America, Really?

    BY GOVIN VATSAN We constantly hear that the United States is becoming too “polar­ized.” The news media point to increasing and uncompromising partisan­ship as the defining character of the Ameri­can political experience, and the basis of a “Culture War.” But while pundits fixate on polarization as the root of our na­tion’s political ills, such sweeping…