The U.S. Senate and its filibuster
Ezra Klein has a bunch of great stories on the filibuster today (one introducing the problem, and then several interviews, with Sen. Jeff Merkley, Sen. Tom Harkin, the president of the SEIU, and academic Barbara Sinclair).
I wrote about the issue a few weeks back for my column. The thing's a mess, and presently the Senate is where good bills go to die (or at least get serious leprosy).
