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Voting in the United States is an anachronistic exercise. That is, despite the enormous advances that technology has brought to all-important tasks such as paying taxes, managing finances, reviewing medical records, and the like, voting has largely…

As much as Jon Stewart makes me believe it is, the extreme partisanship of today is no laughing matter. It might be humorous if it were limited only to the halls of Congress, but today, the bitter partisanship plaguing American democracy extends…

How can we fix our democracy? The question is a deceptively simple one predicated on a dangerous assumption – that is, that our democracy is in fact broken. Declaring our democracy dangerously diseased is a national pastime these days, but such a…