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Worries about the twilight of American hegemony and China’s rise are producing a new consensus in Washington. At a recent congressional hearing on “the Chinese Communist Party’s political warfare,” ...

Teachers told him it was unlikely a child could slip or tumble from that great a height without pushing or prompting.

Elections have become nearly synonymous with democracy. We invest so much hope, energy, and money in elections and keep ending up with out-of-touch politicians, legislative gridlock, and violent ...

Drutman can’t possibly be right that the two-party system is “the whole ballgame.” The hyperpartisanship and dysfunctional politics that concerns him is happening not just in countries with two-party ...

Drutman is a rarity in American politics: a process-oriented reformer who is also a cheerleader for political parties. Ever since the Gilded Age, reformers aiming to fiddle with rules, clean up ...

Drutman makes a persuasive and important case about both the need and the strategy for moving beyond a sclerotic two-party system. His core recommendation—reviving fusion voting to empower more ...

Single-member districts are the real issue. Political competition is a function of electoral rules. Just as a duopolistic market does not come about by chance, a party system confined to only two ...

Drutman is partly right: the “two-party doom loop” threatens American democracy and structural reform is needed. But his framework can’t explain how authoritarian movements have seized governing power ...

The measure of any reform proposal is twofold. Is it a good idea, and is it possible? Restoring fusion is also a refreshingly modest reform. Unlike proposals to abolish the Electoral College or permit ...

To blame our current party system for the dysfunction of our democracy is not to argue that we would be better off without parties. As Drutman says, reinvigorating our party system is “the only path ...