The system the United States uses to elect its most powerful public official has for decades not only received little public support, but been widely criticized. Alex Keyssar outlines three primary reasons why it’s still around.
Maya Sen and Matthew Blackwell offer a groundbreaking account of the ways institutions of the past continue to sway attitudes of the presence. They examine the institution of US slavery to demonstrate how social beliefs persist long after the formal policies that conditioned those beliefs have been eradicated.