the only nationally elected federal office-holder. That, too, could be a really healthy development.

to vote in every senate race. That's lots of voting, I realize! Every two years, 33 more choices to make on one's federal general election ballot. But the resulting mix of Senators would represent, at some level, the whole country. The malapportionment would fade. And the president wouldn't be ...

better fits our time, when politics is genuinely national, and the Senate has a thoroughly national role. Here's the idea: Senators have to reside in the state they represent. And each party's nominee gets in a primary among that state's voters. But in the general, everyone in the country gets ...

Would love to see that result. But the text of Article V seems to pull quite hard against it: "no state, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate." (And Art I, § 3, puts the number, per state, at 2.) I have kooky idea, focused on how Senators get elected, that ...

because he is