Jonathan Rauch

The U.S. Capitol Building is seen at sunset in Washington

Earmarks: The one thing Trump gets right about Congress

Wednesday, January 17, 2018

A Precinct 5 Democratic Farm Labor Party voter

Parties need to vet candidates—before the primary ballot is printed

Wednesday, January 3, 2018

Republican candidate Roy Moore greets supporters during the runoff election for the Republican nomination for Alabama's U.S. Senate seat vacated by Attorney General Jeff Sessions, at the RSA Activity center in Montgomery, Alabama, U.S. September 26, 2017. REUTERS/Marvin Gentry - RC14EDB4C0C0

Activist groups are ‘amateurizing’ our political candidates

Tuesday, December 12, 2017

Voters cast their ballots during early voting in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.

How activists choose our politicians, long before we vote

Thursday, December 7, 2017

A still image from video shows U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ), who had been recuperating in Arizona after being diagnosed with brain cancer, speaking on the floor of the U.S. Senate after returning to Washington for a vote on healthcare reform in Washington, U.S., July 25, 2017. SENATE TV/Handout via REUTERS - RTX3CVPP

Ever-courageous John McCain returns to D.C., battling both cancer and malignant politics

Thursday, July 27, 2017

U.S. President Richard Nixon (L), listened to by First lady Pat Nixon and daughter Tricia Nixon (R), says goodbye to family and staff in the White House East Room on August 9, 1974. On Monday it will be 25 years since Nixon resigned his office, or "resigned in disgrace" as many of the news accounts would say, as it became clear the House of Representatives would impeach him for Watergate misdeeds and the Senate would follow by convicting him. In the quarter century since that day, historians, politicians and Nixon himself until he died on April 22, 1994, have argued his legacy and how his resignation -- the first by an American president -- changed the highest office in the land. - RTXJ4K6

Impeaching Trump is a heavy lift

Friday, June 16, 2017

Voting booths are seen during the New York primary elections at a polling station in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, U.S., April 19, 2016.

Why voting makes us stupid, and what to do about it

Thursday, June 1, 2017

French President elect Emmanuel Macron delivers a speech during his victory rally near the Louvre museum after results in the 2017 presidential election in Paris, France, May 7, 2017. REUTERS/Thomas Samson/Pool

Trump, Sanders, Corbyn, Macron and the attack on parties

Wednesday, May 31, 2017

Voters want change, not ideology

Wednesday, November 9, 2016

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Want to reduce the influence of super PACs? Strengthen state parties

Raymond J. La Raja and Jonathan Rauch

Thursday, March 24, 2016