OPINION: Restoring Congress: The Parties Are a Solution

Politicians in safe districts can ignore the rest of the country. But in a strong party committed to a national agenda, leadership could rebuke the extremists.
In my column last week on restoring Congress, I argued that before we call for the legislature to reclaim its old power, we first have to reform it.

How do we go about doing that?

In his thoughtful essay in the New York Times – “What If Congress Were in Charge?” — Yuval Levin offers a number of suggestions. One that I can...