The Senate Was Designed for a Country That No Longer Exists
A chamber built to cool the passions of thirteen coastal states now governs a continental nation it structurally cannot represent.
Politics
Reported analysis of American political life — its institutions, its actors, and the widening gap between how the system was designed and how it now works.
How Governors Became the Last Grown-Ups in the Room
As Washington perfects the art of the performative stalemate, the real business of governing has quietly moved to the states.
The Coming Reckoning Over Emergency Powers
Every president inherits the emergencies of the last one, and declares a few more. The ratchet only turns one way.