by FairVote Minnesota | Nov 25, 2019 | News and Opinion
Lee Drutman in the New York Times As impeachment mania grips Washington, it is easy to descend into an ever-deepening political pessimism. But as odd as it may seem, for the first time in years, I’m optimistic about the future of American democracy. It might be...
by FairVote Minnesota | Nov 6, 2019 | News and Opinion
Jeanne Massey in MinnPost Our current state of extreme divisiveness didn’t start under the current presidency, but it has certainly intensified. The accelerating polarization we are experiencing is not just something we feel and believe to be true; the data show that...
by FairVote Minnesota | Sep 13, 2019 | News and Opinion
Lori Sturdevant in the Star Tribune With no real hope of winning, third-party presidential candidates serve as spoilers. They thwart majority rule, undermine the winner’s legitimacy and risk an undesirable outcome. Even when they bring worthy issues to the fore (see...
by FairVote Minnesota | Jun 15, 2019 | News and Opinion
Review of Larry Diamond’s Ill Winds: Saving Democracy from Russian Rage, Chinese Ambition, and American Complacency in the New York Times. China today holds as many as a million Uighurs and other Turkic Muslim minorities in “political education” camps. Across...
by FairVote Minnesota | May 6, 2019 | News and Opinion
Minnesota Business Leaders in the Star Tribune. Opinion editor’s note: This commentary was signed by multiple Minnesota business leaders. They are listed below. We are writing to urge the Minnesota Legislature to support the Ranked-Choice Voting Local Options...
by FairVote Minnesota | Apr 19, 2019 | News and Opinion
Larry Diamond in The American Interest. A growing array of reformers are coming to see the logic of “master reform,” the one most likely to break the logjam on all the others: Ranked Choice Voting. With the intense controversy around the Mueller Report (which was...
