Schoolhouse Rock made it look like a reasonably orderly process. A bill has an idea, gets written down, goes to committee, gets debated, passes both
Since 2020, more than two dozen states have rewritten significant pieces of their election law. The political arguments around these changes have been loud, the
Something happened to Thanksgiving a few years ago and it hasn’t fully recovered. I don’t mean this in a way that’s specific to one family
I’ll be honest about something: I didn’t pay attention to local elections for most of my adult life. I voted in presidential years, sometimes in
I’ll be honest about something: I didn’t pay attention to local elections for most of my adult life. I voted in presidential years, sometimes in
The 2008 Obama campaign gets cited constantly as the moment digital politics arrived. In retrospect, it was more like the dial-up era of digital politics.
Immigration is possibly the topic where American political conversation has the widest gap between the heat generated and the light produced. Everyone has strong feelings.
At some point in the last few years, the federal government and a significant number of state governments stopped being in the same basic argument
My cousin teaches fourth grade in Tennessee. Her friend from college teaches the same grade in Massachusetts. They text each other sometimes about their weeks
Nobody asked me when I turned 18 what I wanted from a politician. They handed me a voter registration card, pointed me toward a booth,
