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The Fed's books are already audited annually; “Audit the Fed” means political audit of monetary policy — and beside it stands the older argument to end the Fed entirely.
Lena Fischer
Polls show large majorities support a trading ban for lawmakers and their spouses — the dispute is between clean-government optics and measurement.
Lena Fischer
Life tenure is in the Constitution; every sitting justice's successor now shapes policy for decades — which is why term-limit proposals keep returning.
Lena Fischer
Five elections sent a popular-vote loser to the White House; the fight over the Electoral College is a fight over federalism, cities, and small states.
Valentina Sokolov
The case for and against ending the Senate's 60-vote legislative filibuster, drawn from named advocates on each side.
Lena Fischer