Advocacy Center for Equality and Democracy

Yesterday, the Washington Post published an article by Norman Ornstein and Thomas Mann that rejects several, and proposes several other, solutions to “the nation’s big, long-term problems.”  One solution that the authors reject is a third party.  Like most of the mainstream discourse on third parties, theirs is misleading and, overall, unhelpful for understanding America’s [...]

The Advocacy Center for Equality and Democracy sincerely appreciates everyone who visits this website, especially those who visit regularly. Generally speaking, we would like to update the site regularly so that both new and returning visitors will have novel, timely content to read.  Unfortunately, we have been too busy working on other projects over the [...]

A point we have made before is that the President has power independent of Congress.  This should be undeniable, but people will nevertheless argue that a third-party President would be powerless because Congress would not cooperate with him/her. A couple of pieces came out recently that highlight the absurdity of that argument.  First, the New [...]