Writings
Books
Democracy Unchained: How to Rebuild Government for the People
Independents Rising: Outsider Movements, Third Parties, and the Struggle for a Post-Partisan America
Talk/Talk: Making (Non) Sense of an Irrational World
Papers
“Gamechangers? Independent Voters May Rewrite the Political Playbook,” Contributing Resource. (October 2017)
“Finding Otherness: A Blueprint for an Independent Conversation about 2020” (June 2017)
Opinion Pieces
IVN, “THE SPEECH THAT BERNIE SHOULD GIVE (but probably won’t)” (3/9/20)
IVN, “Being Mike Bloomberg (Presidential Candidate?)” (11/13/19)
IVN, “Suicide by Stupidity: Arizona Democrats Close the Presidential Primary” (10/9/19)
IVN, “The US Open and Open Politics” (9/11/19)
IVN, “Long Live Crackpots” (7/17/19)
IVN, “Poor Bernie”(6/12/19)
IVN “2020 and Beyond: The View From County Road T” (5/15/19)
IVN, “Basketball Battles and Political Scores (Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Game)” (4/10/19)
IVN, “Remembering Pat Caddell: Independently Brilliant” (2/26/19)
IVN, “Spoiler Alert: Schultz, the Democrats, and the Independents” (2/13/19)
IVN, “Baby, It’s Cold Inside” (1/9/19)
IVN, “To Earth: A Four Line Poem to Bring in the New Year” (12/12/19)
IVN, “Uses of Independent Power: What Happened on Election Day and Why” (11/14/18)
IVN, “Justice, Justices and Fried Green Tomatoes” (10/10/18)
IVN, “The Audacity of Greg Orman” (9/12/18)
“The Summer of our Discontent” IVN (8/15/18)
“Pipat’s Letter” IVN (7/11/18)
“Maine Voters lift up Democracy. Democratic Party Pulls it Down” IVN (6/13/18)
“Tornado Watch in Kansas” IVN (5/9/18)
“Bonnie Reiss, We Were Lucky to Know Ya” IVN (4/11/18)
“Independent Voters: We’re Not a Myth and We Care” IVN (3/14/18)
“Turning Tides at the New Orleans Summit” IVN (2/14/18)
“Dear Oprah: If you Run for President, Run as an Independent!” IVN (1/1/18)
“Dying Parties, (Very) Bad Behavior and It’s Still Happy New Year” IVN (12/13/17)
“3 Indisputable Reasons the Two-Party System is Failing America” IVN (11/
“Independents Can’t Win, The Biggest Lie in the Two-Party Playbook,” IVN (10/17/17)
“Independent Voters are Rewriting the Political Playbook” Kansas City Star (10/14/17)
“The Neo-Independent: Making Sense of the Senseless” IVN (10/11/17)
“The Questions are Blowin’ in the Wind” IVN (9/13/17)
“Looking to 2020: A Battle Plan for Independents and Reforms” IVN (6/12/17)
“Bernie Offers Perfect Advice to Democrats, Will They Listen?” IVN (4/5/17)
Huffington Post, “My Farewell to Obama” (1/17/17)
Huffington Post, “Revolts, Reforms and Divides: An Independent Look at the 2016 Presidential Elections” (11/21/16)
Huffington Post, “How the Three B’s: Bernie, Barak and Bloomberg Abandoned the Political Revolution” (8/10/16)
“An Open Letter to Clinton, Johnson, Stein, and Trump From Two Fellow Americans” IVN (6/14/16)
Huffington Post, “Bernie we’re in a Bind: An Open Letter to Bernie Sanders from Jacqueline Salit” (2/25/16)
Huffington Post, “Bernie Should Fight for Independent Voters” (2/4/2016)
Huffington Post, “Mother Hillary and Uncle Bernie: A Theatrical Review” (10/19/15)
Huffington Post, “Trumps Non-Loyalty Oath: The Question of Independents” (8/11/15)
Arizona Republic, Are Voting Rights for All Voters? Let’s Ask Hillary (6/27/15)
The Oregonian, “Oregon Open Primary Measure Important Part of National Movement” (8/16/14)Huffington Post, “A Multiple Independent Discovery”, co-authored with Steve Peace. (3/5/14)
The Daily Beast, “Obama Electoral Commission Omission: Our Voting System needs Real Reform” (9/29/13)
Does Romney get Independents? Newsday (9/24/12)
Unconventional Times, Huffington Post (9/17/12)
On Behalf of The Independents, National Constitution Center, Constitution Daily (8/8/12)
Independents Rising: Third Party Politics in America (EXCERPT), Huffington Post (8/6/12)
What went wrong with the third party movement in 2012?, Sun Sentinel (7/10/12)
Ruy the Day! Huffington Post, (3/15/12)
Did Independents Make a Mark in Iowa? Huffington Post (1/5/2012)
How Obama can be a Nonpartisan President, Huffington Post, (7/18/11)
Washington Should Not forget the Independents, Huffington Post, (7/18/11), Des Moines Register(7/22/11)
What Obama’s tax package meant to independents, Huffington Post (12/8/2010)
And Now, a Word from Independents – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (2/13/10)
The Parties are over, Newsday, (10/31/10)
Serious as a Heart Attack: the Independents Story, Rapid City Journal (10/16/09)
The right to be independent is at issue, Huffington Post, (7/15/2010)
Move On, MOveon, Huffington Post, (6/1/2010)
Independents see through Washington’s magic show, Huffington Post, (2/20/10)
Swing to the left: new progressives, Pueblo Chieftan (1/17/10)
NY Times, Letter to the editor co-authored with Harry Kresky, (12/29/09)
How the Independent Movement Went Left by Going Right, Huffington Post, (1/2/09).
Don’t confuse ‘tea partyers’ with independents, Christian Science Monitor, (2/16/10)
Independents Adding Sway To Swing?, Black Star News, (1/23/07)
Third Party Candidate a Threat, Contra Costa Times, (6/21/95)
Exclusion Aims to Destroy Third Party Momentum, Lexington Herald-Leader, (9/26/04)
Howard Dean’s game, The Washington Times, (8/6/03)
Pols ignore independents at their peril, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, (1/6/03)
NonpartisanCityElections, Daily News, (7/18/02)
Tom Golisano is a One-Man Political Machine, Newsday, (6/13/02)
The Two Big Parties have Have Had it, Newsday, (12/16/02)
The Emerging Independent Plurality, Seattle Post–Intelligencer, (12/17/02)
Nonpartisan Elections? New York Times, (8/31/02)
Fear and Loathing on the Left, Antiwar.com, (2/15/0)
Appeal to Independents Key to ClintonVictory, The Post Standard, (4/6/00)
Muck and Mire (letter to the editor), The New Republic, (1/17/00)
Tumult on the Left and Right, San Francisco Examiner, (1/2/00)
Reform the Left: Liberals missed the third-party revolt, The Washington Times, (11/19/99)
Independence Makes Bloomberg’s Day, Newsday, (11/14/01)
Buchanan Fights for New Life, San Francisco Chronicle, (10/7/99)
The Reform Party wild card, Christian Science Monitor, (9/7/99)
Third Parties Show us the Money, San Francisco Chronicle, (8/10/99)
Following the election-money trail, Detroit Free Press, (7/26/99)
Can democracy cure violence?, Gun Week, (7/20/99)
Voters must safeguard their democracy, Times Union, (5/26/99)
The Left Has to Quit Democratic Party, Newsday, (4/1/99)
Breaking Bread with the Devils of Politics, Newsday, (10/3/99)
Bringing on New Players, Legal Times, co-authored with Harry Kresky, (4/28/97)
What’s gone wrong with America?, The Atlanta Constitution, (4/8/97)
Somewhere, the rainbow’s over, The Washington Times, (4/2/99)
Democrats should beware of election results, Newsday, (11/18/98)
The numbing of America– by Insider Politics, The Christian Science Monitor, (3/25/97)
Third party more about reform than Ross Perot, USA TODAY, (6/4/96)
Perot Supporters, blacks could form basis for national third party, The Sunday Gazette, (10/16/94)
