Hank RishelTHE DEBT LIMIT: WHY THOSE ELECTED FROM THE POOREST STATES DECIDEThe Biden administration finds itself in an embarrassing situation. The President has been forced to rush back from a really important G7…4 min read·May 23, 2023----
Hank RishelWHY THE PARTIES NEED REFORMWe live in a world in which the candidate choices for both great American political parties are controlled by a minority of their…4 min read·May 13, 2023----
Hank RishelWHY ELECTIONS ARE REALLY WONYou are Joseph Biden. You want to run for a second term. You do have a problem. You are eighty years old. By the end of that second term…4 min read·May 3, 2023----
Hank RishelTHE PRIMARY CAUSE OF PARTY FAILUREBack at it after a break: We face an unusual presidential campaign and election in 2024. Unusual, because many voters in both parties seem…5 min read·Apr 30, 2023----
Hank RishelWHY THE HOUSE IS DIVIDEDHere is a problem: Roughly forty of the two hundred and twenty two Republicans in the current House owe their election to people motivated…4 min read·Jan 26, 2023----
Hank RishelTHE GREAT REPUBLICAN DILEMMAThe midterms are over and we should not have been surprised at the outcome. Typically in this country in the first election after a new…4 min read·Jan 18, 2023----
Hank RishelTHE FRAMERS’ NIGHTMARELet us remember that the framers of the Constitution had a terrible fear of democracy as they understood it, one in which all male voters…4 min read·Jan 12, 2023----
Hank RishelTHE SPEAKERSHIP: WHAT SHOULD HAPPEN NOW!It is Wednesday afternoon January fourth and the House has just held its sixth vote to elect a new speaker. The results have been…3 min read·Jan 5, 2023----
Hank RishelTOMORROW IT BEGINSTomorrow it begins! The Republicans, having won a slim majority in the House, are going to try to get down to business. Until now the newly…3 min read·Jan 3, 2023----