Requiring every citizen to vote would make our elections more inclusive and our democracy more legitimate.
E.J. Dionne
E.J. Dionne Jr. is the co-author of 100% Democracy: The Case for Universal Voting. He is a Washington Post columnist, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and a professor at Georgetown University.
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Is There Such a Thing as Progressive Nationalism?
In his most recent books, John Judis makes the case that there is—and that by indiscriminately embracing globalism, many liberals helped create nationalism’s virulent Trumpian version.
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Leading from the Left
For Ted Kennedy, political leadership meant moving public opinion—not chasing after an elusive center.
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A Radical Pope
Francis has challenged the Catholic Church. How much can he change it?
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The Politics of the New Middle America
In 2010, disaffected voters didn’t embrace the Republican vision. They looked in vain for the Democratic one.
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Practical Liberalism Redux
Like Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Barack Obama is capable of being a pragmatic progressive.
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The Right in the Rearview Mirror
It took liberals 30 years to take conservatism seriously. Now we’re obsessed with it. E.J. Dionne considers four new books about the end of the conservative era.
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After the Fall of the Right
The Plan: Big Ideas for America by Rahm Emanuel and Bruce Reed (Public Affairs, 224 pages, $19.95) Whose Freedom?: The Battle Over America’s Most Important Idea by George Lakoff (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 277 pages, $23.00) Being Right Is Not Enough: What Progressives Must Learn from Conservative Success by Paul Waldman (John Wiley and Sons, […]
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Democratic Détente
For two decades, the Democratic party has been riven by sharp ideological arguments. Those debates were in some respects necessary and important. But it’s obvious that many of those conflicts are irrelevant to our moment, and say far more about the past than the future. The road to nowhere is paved with rote disputes between […]
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The Co-Presidency
Boy Genius: Karl Rove, the Brain Behind the Remarkable Political Triumph of George W. Bush By Lou Dubose, Jan Reid and Carl M. Cannon, Public Affairs, 256 pages, $15.00 Bush’s Brain: How Karl Rove Made George W. Bush Presidential By James C. Moore and Wayne Slater, John Wiley & Sons, 400 pages, $27.95 The Right […]