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You wake up the other morning convinced that now nothing about our politics can surprise you.  And then you hear that the Republican...

There is yet another group that is losing patience with today’s crop of US Senators: their predecessors.  Recently, 70 of them,...

Here’s an article worth your time from the New York Times of March 5, 2019 by Columbia Law Professor, Tim Wu: “The Oppression of the...

As Thanksgiving approaches, we take some time out to count our blessings.  It is one of the healthiest things each of us can do for our...

The anger and frustration with our government is intensifying.  All of us are feeling it, whether we hail from the left, the right or the...

The senior Senator from Arizona has been leading the charge lately for a return to bi-partisan cooperation and compromise in Congress. ...

Lately we have seen a disturbing phenomenon within both of our major political parties: signs of significant fracturing. The Democrats...

Many paradigms have been shifted during the past several years in our understanding of how our political system is supposed to work. The...

There is so much talk about the “fiscal cliff” that you would think that it is the moral equivalent of war or of a monstrous natural...

Another moderate centrist in Congress finds what we used to call “the world’s greatest deliberative body” so dysfunctional that...

For the past year I have been sharing the Public Check on Congress with a broad range of audiences.  Virtually everyone sees the need for...

As legislative stalemates go, some are dumber than others.  The one we have at the moment concerning the national debt limit is about as...

The other day my Congressman held a town hall meeting in my neighborhood.  Interestingly, he started off by mentioning that this 112th...

Check this out: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/13/us/politics/13congress.html?partner=rss&emc=rss    With eight Senators planning to...

Don’t you find it strange that there is so little conversation going on about alternatives for fixing our national political system? ...

For many of us who claim to believe in fiscal responsibility, the frustration has been building relentlessly over the years: misleading...

I’m calling this week the first anniversary of the Public Check on Congress initiative.  It was Tuesday, February 2, 2010 when Illinois...

Last night, as I finalized the copy for this website, I tuned in the State of the Union address by President Obama.  With Prom Night...