Irregular Order · album · 2026 · 7 songs

The Trump administration is hoping to put so many restrictions on mail-in balloting that people simply won’t be able to vote that way at all.

In this episode of Politics in Question, Lee chats with Alex Hertel-Fernandez and Jamila Michener about what power building might look like for the next pro-democracy government. Hertel-Fernandez is...

The Supreme Court has closed off nearly every legal avenue for challenging partisan gerrymandering. The answer isn’t better maps. It’s proportional representation.

Presidentialism plus single-member districts is a bad combination that incentivizes leaders to consolidate power by fueling division.

A new poll shows support for moving the U.S. toward proportional representation, a system that elects multiple representatives in a single district in rough proportion to a party's vote share.

The current congressional map for Georgia gives nine of 14 House seats to Republicans and five to Democrats, but Georgia is divided politically 50-50. The system must change.

Some reforms just rearrange the gridlock. This one unlocks the pieces that matter.

A myth haunts conversations about proportional representation in America. It is the belief that proportional representation requires a parliamentary system. We’re here to kill this myth. As comparativ...

Renowned historian James C. Cobb told CBS News Atlanta why he joined 500+ scholars urging Congress to rethink winner-take-all elections after SCOTUS's Callais ruling.

Gerrymandering persists because single-member districts allow it.

Presidentialism plus single-member districts is a bad combination that incentivizes leaders to consolidate power by fueling division.

Why isn't November the election that matters? Single-member districts are the problem. Primary reform doesn't fix that.

Why isn't November the election that matters? Single-member districts are the problem. Primary reform doesn't fix that.

Why isn't November the election that matters? Single-member districts are the problem. Primary reform doesn't fix that.

Why isn't November the election that matters? Single-member districts are the problem. Primary reform doesn't fix that.

Fair maps require a definition of fair. There isn't one. There are infinite ones.

The following is a guest post from Michael Latner: Richard Pildes’ thoughtful essay on yesterday’s Election Law Blog distinguishes two lines of debate over the virtues of proportional representation t...

The political scientist Lee Drutman argues that we should switch to a system of proportional representation and put an end to our “trench warfare politics.”

Districting has never been “fair.” Maybe the problem is the districting.

Seventeen organizers, politicians, academics and media makers from my "This Old Democracy" on how they are coping with our challenging times.