by jessparvin | Mar 7, 2024 | Democracy, Presidential Succession, Uncategorized
The House speaker crisis calls attention to the potential for far worse political instability. By Jean Parvin Bordewich and Roy E. Brownell II Originally published on October 27, 2023 in The Wall Street Journal The ousting of Kevin McCarthy as speaker threw the House...
by jessparvin | Sep 13, 2023 | Book Reviews, Democracy, History
Nancy Pelosi’s Big Stick An insider account of the Californian’s first four years as House speaker reveals how she prodded Washington’s more timid male leaders to do big things. Originally published on August 27, 2023 in Washington Monthly In September 2008, House...
by jessparvin | Sep 13, 2023 | Democracy, History
The 118th Congress could be more effective than the productive 117th Read the full article, originally published on June 6, 2023, in Roll...
by jessparvin | Sep 13, 2023 | Democracy, History, Presidential Succession, Uncategorized
Should the president and vice president both die, you’d think we’d have a well-considered plan to reconstitute the government. In fact, we don’t. Originally published on April 4, 2023 in Washington Monthly Most of us who follow government know what the line of...
by Jean | May 7, 2022 | Democracy, Uncategorized
Originally published on May 4, 2022, by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Jean Parvin Bordewich is a program officer in the U.S. Democracy Program at the Hewlett Foundation, overseeing grantmaking for the National Governing Institutions strategy. Earlier she...
by jessparvin | Apr 26, 2022 | Book Reviews, Democracy
Originally published January 12, 2020, at WashingtonMonthly.com The House Intelligence Committee’s impeachment hearings displayed starkly how different Democrats and Republicans have become. Throughout the hearings, Democratic committee chairman Adam Schiff maintained...
