
Lee Drutman
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The president doesn’t run the country alone. It’s important to know who is going to provide key advice.


Kevin McCarthy has raised lots of money for the Republican Party, and he’s shared it widely. That’s why he’s likely to be the next speaker.


To run for president, you pretty much have to be insane. No wonder all our candidates are so bad.


A few thinkers on the conservative side are coming around to the view that cutting congressional funding to prove a point turns out to be at best pointless, and more likely counter-productive.


The right hates excessive government regulation. The left hates inequality. They should both hate “regressive rents.”


A new study finds that when justices opted in to a public financing system, the justices did exactly what judges are supposed to do -- they ruled impartially.


Is our system of government going to go the way of Humpty Dumpty?


When Democrats have been in the White House for eight years, they don’t mention corruption issues in the party platforms.


The good news is she supports small-donor matching. The bad news is she ignores lobbying, and puts far too much emphasis on Citizens United.


It’s quite possible that the target audience for the advertising blitz was as much AIPAC’s own supporters as it was members of Congress.