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Joseph Postell is Associate Professor of Politics at Hillsdale College and a contributing editor at Civitas Outlook.
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Why Can’t We Have a Real Filibuster?
Looking For Solidarity in the Wrong Place
Chadha’s Mistakes and the Diminished Congress
Is This Nixon Redux?
The “Baneful Practice of Secessions” Returns to Texas
The Incapable Congress
Speaker Trump
A Tariff Crisis Delayed, not Averted
A Call for Legislative Statesmanship
A Window to a Real Congress
Deconstructing the Administrative State: Will This Time be Different?