All I need to know about politics I learned at the bar

All I need to know about politics I learned at the bar

I hate how we talk about politics. This might come as a surprise, because at least part of my day job involves writing about politics in Kansas. But the exposure has solidified my belief that lawmakers, officials, journalists and the general public all could do a better job of thinking about what they’re doing and why. Our conversation about politics fails at least in part because it’s inevitably couched in adversarial terms. In one metaphor, …