A New England town meeting runs off a warrant, the list of articles the selectmen post weeks ahead, and every voter in town gets a say on each one. Massachusetts voters will see something close to a statewide warrant on […]
Schisms Within ended on a question: whether a primary-season fracture costs a coalition the general election, or whether November simply reassembles what August split apart. The Great Lakes states, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio, vote on November 3, and […]
The West North Central division — North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Minnesota, Iowa, and Missouri — earns the regional treatment The South Rises, Schisms Within, and The River Decides What Seven States Couldn't already gave other Census divisions, and […]
What Sacramento Is Deciding, Austin's Long Recess, Beacon Hill's Interval Training, and The View from Tallahassee each read a single capital's session. The South Rises and The River Decides What Seven States Couldn't broke that pattern to read a region […]
What Sacramento Is Deciding, Austin's Long Recess, Beacon Hill's Interval Training, and The View from Tallahassee each read one state capital's session for what it actually decides about social liberty, bill by bill. The South Rises broke that pattern once […]
The South Rises took the East South Central states as a single unit because all four were governed, this year, by the same coalition with enough margin that the ordinary checks on that coalition had mostly stopped checking. The Great […]
What Sacramento Is Deciding, Austin's Long Recess, and Beacon Hill's Interval Training each took a single state capital as the unit worth watching. This entry breaks that pattern on purpose. Growing a Movement as a Design Problem argued that the […]
Three regions into this beat and no two legislatures have run on the same clock. What Sacramento Is Deciding covered a state in continuous annual session against a hard floor deadline. Austin's Long Recess covered one that meets once every […]
This is the first entry in a beat this site is starting: reading a state legislature's session, bill by bill, for what it actually means for social liberty, rather than waiting for the national platform fights that get all the […]
What Sacramento Is Deciding and Austin's Long Recess gave this beat two structural patterns already: a legislature in continuous annual session against a hard floor deadline, and a legislature that meets once every two years and spends the other nineteen […]
What Sacramento Is Deciding opened this site's legislature beat with California, mid-session, bills moving through committee on a clock. Texas is the second region on that beat, and it immediately breaks the format that piece assumed: there is no Texas […]
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