Filibuster
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How do you make a political problem worse? By pretending it does not exist.
A week that brings a long-standing problem into focus. Now, as for whether it solves that problem...
One party is using the filibuster much more than the other. You wouldn't know that from today's story in our leading political paper.
When a bill gets more than 50 votes, but less than 60, it doesn't "fail"; it is "blocked"
Catching up with reader mail, much of which points to hopeful signs
There are not many opportunities to undo the evil of filibuster-abuse, but one of them is about to appear
When rule of law becomes rule by individual whim
Why "cyber threat" is not "cyber war," plus a jazz classic about the filibuster.