Can Anyone Govern Britain -- or America? (opens in new tab)

As Britain gets ready for its seventh prime minister in just 10 years, it's time to ask whether the parliamentary system itself is broken. That might explain not only why landslide election victories don't translate into stable leadership in Britain but also why America's Congress is so feckless. Is representative government an idea whose time has passed? In Europe as well as America, leftists prefer that judges and bureaucrats wield permanent power, as supposedly impartial experts who know b...