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Judgment / October 25, 2026
Most Americans can name a few Supreme Court justices, maybe a couple of senators. Ask them who chairs the subcommittee that funds the Pentagon and they will...
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Every debt-ceiling fight eventually produces a single number that consumes the news cycle. The most recent round was no different. On January 21, 2025, the...
The First Amendment does not whisper. It commands. Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech. Yet in the world of modern campaign finance...
Pull up a map of crossover voting rules by state and you will see what looks like a policy accident. New York and Pennsylvania run closed primaries...
Ask the wrong question and you'll get the wrong map. The 2026 midterms are not one national election. They are 435 separate constitutional contests held on...
Most people think the filibuster is the fight. They are watching the wrong fight. Before any senator offers an amendment, before any extended debate begins...
There is a vote in the United States Senate that almost never makes the evening news, yet it determines most of what Washington ultimately does to you. It...
I have watched the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact move from a fringe talking point to what its backers now call an inevitability, and the gap...
Every few years, Washington works itself into a moral panic over the nuclear option. In 2013, Democrats used it to confirm most presidential nominees by...
Let me be direct about something most political commentary ignores. One of the most effective tools of insider privilege in Washington is not a bribe, a...