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Earlier this week, Matthew Yglesias, continuing his longstanding intellectual crush on political scientist Juan Linz and longstanding skepticism about the merits of the American Revolution, wrote a Vox essay modestly titled “American democracy is doomed.” Why? Yglesias argues that presidential systems are more crisis-prone than parliamentary systems:

Linz offered several reasons why

For the past painful year, the Republican presidential contenders have been bombarding Americans with empty propaganda slogans and competing, bizarrely, to present themselves as the least experienced person for the most important elected job in the world. Democratic primary voters, on the other hand, after a substantive debate over real issues, have the chance to nominate one of the most

They have spent at least 70 collective years in government: five sitting members of Congress, two civil servants from the George W. Bush administration, a pair of state legislators and a former governor.

They are a counterintuitive fit with the antigovernment, anti-establishment fervor that has energized the Republican Party of late. And their victories seem hard to reconcile with the

It appears Hillary is the one who thinks she should be getting impeached.

How is the Democrats’ impeachment inquiry going to turn out? Well, we have already been through the impeachment inquiry, though it was called by another name. It was called the collusion inquiry, and it turned out as most conservatives said it was going to turn out. They said there was no evidence and Robert