The Problem with Congress

Why Lawmaking Feels Impossible, Gridlock Keeps Winning, and Voters Keep Losing

De: Julian Mercer

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

In The Problem with Congress, Julian Mercer examines how America’s first branch became weaker, louder, more performative, and less capable of governing. From gridlock and shutdown politics to gerrymandering, money, lobbying, the filibuster, oversight theater, and the Trump-era collapse of institutional courage, Mercer offers a sharp and accessible analysis of why lawmaking feels impossible and why voters keep losing.

This is not a defense of one party or a soft “both sides” argument. It is a clear-eyed look at Congress as an institution, and at the choices, incentives, cowardice, and political rewards that keep dysfunction alive.