In my 2024 Dunwody Lecture, Combating Extremism, I said that among political reforms that are plausibly realistic in the short term, the one that, in my view, would make the most practical difference ...

In continuing to catch up on essays we published at the NYU Democracy Project while I was away, here are excerpts from two recent essays. Aziz Rana is the J. Donald Monan, S.J., University Professor ...

David Dailey at The Atlantic retraces Chief Justice Roberts’s lifetime of quietly dismantling the Voting Rights Act. “Roberts’s papers from [his time in the Department of Justice], housed at the ...

AP News reports that the “U.S. Justice Department is suing four more states as part of its effort to collect detailed voting data and other election information across the country.” Eighteen states ...

The Justice Department has filed a lawsuit against Fulton County, Georgia, over records related to the 2020 election, escalating the Trump administration’s efforts to boost the president’s false ...

Faux Campaign Finance Regulation and the Pathway to American Oligarchy (conference paper dated Apr. 24, 2025, draft available, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm ...

In yesterday’s campaign-finance argument, NRSC v. FEC, several Justices asked whether, if the Court held that the First Amendment did not permit limits on political parties’ coordinated expenditures ...

Faux Campaign Finance Regulation and the Pathway to American Oligarchy (conference paper dated Apr. 24, 2025, draft available, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm ...

Steven Hill (New Democracy Institute) and Paul Haughey (CalRCV.org) have posted a new article on SSRN comprehensively reviewing the literature on RCV. The article is summarized by them here. The ...

N.Y. Times offers commentary suggesting that winning the five seats gerrymandered under the new map “is far from a lock for Republicans next November.” Most interestingly, from my perspective, it ...