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  • The Doom Loop
  • Undercurrent Events (Blog)
  • Writing
  • Scholarship
  • Interviews
    • Audio Interviews
    • Video Interviews
    • Q&A Interviews
    • Debates
    • Politics in Question podcast (co-host)
  • Speaking
  • Contact

Articles about Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop

  • "The two-party system is killing our democracy," Vox, January 2020

  • "The two-party system broke the Constitution, The Atlantic, January 2020

  • “Why The Two-Party System Is Effing Up U.S. Democracy,” FiveThirtyEight, June 2021

  • "Let a Thousand Parties Bloom, Foreign Policy, October 2019

  • "To save our democracy (and our sanity), blow up the two-party system," Boston Globe, October 2020

  • “American Democracy Can't Survive Unless the Far Right Is Marginalized. Here's How to Do It” Time Magazine, March 2021

  • "Escaping the Partisan Death Spiral," Cato Institute Policy Report, August 2020

  • "How Hatred Came to Dominate American Politics," FiveThirtyEight, October 2020

  • "The Case for Proportional Voting," National Affairs, Winter 2018

  • "Hyperpartisanship could destroy US democracy," Vox, September 2017

  • "The Best Way to Fix Gerrymandering Is to Make It Useless," New York Times, June 2018

Coverage of the Two-Party Doom Loop

  • "How Long Can Democracy Survive QAnon and Its Allies? Politicians and political scientists wonder if there are electoral reforms that might blunt the lunacy." Tom Edsall, New York Times, February 2021

  • "A foreign solution to America’s political dysfunction" Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, February 2021.

  • "How to fix democracy: Move beyond the two-party system, experts say" Christopher Ingraham, Washington Post, March 2021

Videos

  • How America's two-party doom loop is driving division (3 minutes)

Interviews

  • "A radical — or obvious? — plan to save American democracy" Lee Drutman on the Ezra Klein Show, September 2020

  • “Democracy in crisis, part 2: The two-party problem,” February 2022

  • C-Span Book TV, January 2020

Presentations on Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop

  • Presentation at New America (with Anne-Marie Slaughter), January 2020

  • Presentation at the American Enterprise Institute (with Yuval Levin), January 2020