Parties

Are Millennials really partying less often than their parents used to?

At least, that's what the old heads want you to believe.

We need to decide how primaries should work in this country before they get completely out of hand and the voters are left out entirely.

Our current Republican-Democrat divide is so durable because it lines up with the conservative-liberal divide. To undermine that would require a major shift in today's ideological coalitions.

Money, even lots of it, isn't enough to win a presidential nomination if party insiders want someone else.

There are a lot of problems with our two-party system, and fixing them would require nothing less than a fundamental shift in the way politics work in this country. But there are better ways.

Other states are moving quickly to adopt reforms passed by California voters in 2010, but there may be unintended consequences.