Opinion

In Praise of Boring Government

A functioning democracy is not a spectacle. The virtues that sustain it — diligence, compromise, incremental progress — are exactly the qualities least rewarded in our current media environment. That needs to change.

Opinion

The Case Against Term Limits We Keep Ignoring

Term limits sound appealing as a remedy for entrenched power, but decades of evidence from states that adopted them suggest they drain institutional expertise while doing little to check the influence of outside money.