Will voter discontent shatter the partisan deadlock in U.S. politics this November?

Executive-Legislative Branch dynamics over foreign policy are less affected by partisanship than is the case in domestic policy.

American politics today is far more volatile than in the past. That makes predicting what will happen in November a temptation for fools. Expect a massive failure to resist temptation.

Partisan divisions in the absence of supermajorities don’t cause gridlock. Electoral volatility does.

Barack Obama has based his policies as President on two assumptions. One year after his election both assumptions appear to have been mistaken.His domestic policies have been based on the assumption that economic distress would produce an increased demand for, or at least acceptance of, big government policies. The financial crisis of September 2008 had […]

The irony of the Voting Rights Act.