Politics

The Ballot Measure Has Become the Legislature

When lawmakers refuse to act, organizers go around them. The result is policy written by whoever can afford signature gatherers.

Turnout Is Not the Variable Everyone Thinks It Is

Both parties have organized around the belief that higher participation helps one side. The evidence for that stopped holding some time ago.

What a Governor Actually Controls

Campaigns promise things that sit with a legislature, a court, or a federal agency. The office has real power, and it is somewhere else.