Fix the Filibuster NOW
In September of 2020, I wrote an article that defended the filibuster as a way to stabilize our legislative process. Some laws should take a supermajority to change, and the filibuster was — I emphasize the past tense — a passable way to determine what those laws would be. (In the art of the possible, “passable” is a high grade.) The wonders of hypertext make it…