Nature of our partisan battles
What can we make of the latest constitutional crisis? Most prominently, it is a grudge match. Democrats on one side …
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Blood politics
Just as all is fair in war, no presumption of innocence exists in politics. To take the recent Supreme Court …
Interest group politics in a partisan environment
We can compare Tea Party and Black Lives Matter as single-issue interest groups. We can also consider what happened to these groups after they decided to align with multi-issue interest groups, or major political parties.
Democratic Representation and Obstructionist Politics
Washington has become a bottomless source of so-called narratives that pundits parrot, pad, peddle and promote in order to persuade …
The Trap of Partisan Politics
From time to time President Obama sounds a theme of unity and teamwork. He says in a speech that we …
Nancy Pelosi’s Leadership in the House of Representatives
Below is the first political post in the WordPress version of The Jeffersonian: Nancy Pelosi does not provide good leadership …
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