Broken Government: Term Limits

As Karen and Michael noted we all did stories for the Broken Government project with our sister company CNN. Mine was on term limits (thank you deconstructiva for reminding me to post). Love ‘em or hate ‘em, they aren’t likely to happen any time soon as, thanks to a 1995 Supreme Court ruling, it’ll take [...]

Thoughts On Broken Government–Beyond Boobs And Ballots

This theme—the government is broken, frozen, incapacitated, petty, pathetic—is everywhere. TIME and CNN have even made it a week-long theme. Newsweek’s Jon Meacham, in typical mahogany-paneled erudition, devotes his weekly column to assuring his readers that history has seen even worse. A new poll shows that 86 percent of Americans think the thesis “government is [...]