The prospect of a new political party by Elon Musk is garnering considerable attention. The question for me is whether the focus on third parties will also begin to undermine the American aversion to ...

The Washington Post‘s Editorial Board is taking local officials in DC to task for refusing to implement a voter initiative to use ranked-choice voting in the District. Voters in the District ...

Andrew Albright has published this student note in the California Law Review. Here is the abstract: This Note explores the idea of paying Americans to cast their ballots as a mechanism to increase ...

Rick Pildes covered the exciting news that Heather Gerken is going to head the Ford Foundation, after a successful stint as Yale Law School dean. And even better, as the NYT headline puts it, Ford ...

As I highlighted last month, I am deeply skeptical of any third political party venture that purports to represent some middle-of-the-road interests in the United States. Rick P. rightly asks some ...

Florida State University’s Election Law Center now has a place in state statute, even if it didn’t receive full funding. Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed legislation (SB 892) formally establishing the ...

An initial big question here is whether enough credible candidates will be willing to run under this party label. Especially since Musk has tried to define in advance the major policy positions of the ...

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Starting today I’ll be turning over the blogging duties for this week to my friend Guy.

This updated chart from Milan Singh, at Slow Boring, shows that Democratic party platforms in 2024 mention the word “jobs” ...

Justin popping back in. Today, the NYT issued a correction to its story on Mamdani’s impact on the NYC primary electorate, ...

While most shareholder activists are hitting a brick wall with environmental,social and governance measures at 2025 annual meetings, a proposal askingfor increased transparency around corporate ...