Wonder Land: The country is drifting right and opposition conservatives better not miss the turn.
Images: AP/AFP/Getty Images/Zuma Press Composite: Mark KellyLast month’s debt-ceiling deal was a small assertion of the prerogatives of Congress—an institution that in recent decades has shirked its duties and diminished its own power.
The representative legislature is a British-American innovation from the 17th and 18th centuries that proved a mighty engine of nationhood.
It has become so thoroughly associated with legitimate government that even dictatorships such as China and Russia operate faux legislatures.
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