Somewhere, Samuel J. Tilden may be smiling. The 1876 Democratic presidential nominee — who won the popular vote but lost the presidency to Rutherford B. Hayes — would surely approve of the movement afoot to entrust the American people with the direct election of their president. Though the outcome is far from certain, increasingly energized […]
Brendan Mackie
Brendan Mackie is a Prospect intern.
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Why We Fight
Everyone wants to talk about polarization. Why is American politics so contentious, so uncivil, and so stalemated these days? In their new book, Polarized America: The Dance of Ideology and Unequal Riches, political scientists Nolan McCarty, Keith T. Poole, and Howard Rosenthal identify a chief culprit behind the decades-long increase in political polarization: rising economic […]