Political Gridlock

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News and Commentary

  • Boston Globe: Broken City, e-book collection of Globe articles from its Washington Bureau (Oct 16, 2013). Articles referenced are:
    • Turning the map into a partisan weapon
    • A lesson for Bob Dole: old rules no longer apply
    • Deadlock by design hobbles election agency
    • Kansas district shuns compromise
    • Tax lobbyists help businesses reap windfalls
    • As Obama, Senate collide, courts caught short
    • For freshmen in Congress, focus is on raising money
    • Democratic strategy promotes Tea Party
    • Washington's robust market for attacks and half-truths
    • One nominee, 1,000 questions
    • Not the Congress he used to know
    • Farm bill fails as trade-offs of yore vanish
    • The role of partisan media
    • Many D.C. think tanks now player in partisan wars
    • Boehner pulled from two directions
    • Obama's vision of unity led only to a wider gap
    • Researcher helps sow climate-change doubt
    • Bipartisan group finds bridges hard to build
    • Solutions
      • Ideas abound for breaking logjam, but D.C. isn't listening
      • Nonpartisan primaries become a game changer
      • UK's parliamentary system offers clues for escaping gridlock
      • Connecticut bucking tide of election dollars
      • Iowa keeping partisanship off the map