Author: Dan Eckam
With a multiparty system that offered real, viable choices to voters, there would be much better accountability. Even if two or three dominant parties got more money than they deserved, they’d be kept on their toes since there would be other parties waiting to take their “market share” if they did not cater to voters’ interests.
Trump and his goons are inflating the threat of Antifa, trying to create circumstances that will allow them to escalate, probably by invoking the Insurrection Act, which would give him the power to deploy the military to American streets. Very…
I’ve always known that languages evolve. But I didn’t realize how many changes I would be able to perceive in one short lifetime. Now, at the age of 57, I can personally report on some changes I’ve observed in English…
Three years ago today, something significant happened — historically significant, it seems to me. Yet perhaps the most remarkable thing about it is how little it’s been written about. Will history recognize the Battle of Grant Park? First of all:…
The August 16, 2022 special election for Alaska’s one and only seat in the U.S. House was notable for several reasons, including being the first time ranked-choice voting (RCV) was used to fill the seat. Students of voting methods have…
Yesterday, Senator Kyrsten Sinema (D-Arizona) caused a lot of heads to spin when she announced that she would not support altering the filibuster in order to pass voting rights legislation. One prominent columnist tweeted that she was “effectively asking the…
Yesterday’s Supreme Court decision on DACA is only a temporary reprieve for undocumented DREAMers; there’s little to prevent the Trump administration from trying again with a modified process. Meanwhile, the DACA program is popular with both Democrats and Republicans. In…
I recently watched Intelligence Squared’s debate on the two-party system, and I was shocked by the outcome. Before the debate, 35 percent of the audience agreed with the motion, which was “Two Cheers for Two Parties” (by the way, not…
I have recently published a book I’ve been working for more than five years. It’s entitled “Beyond Two Parties: Why America Needs a Multiparty System and How We Can Have It” and is available at Amazon and other online retailers…