Press

Bios, photos and book covers for press, producers and event organizers.

Areas of expertise: the two-party doom loop, proportional representation, expanding the House, fusion voting, gerrymandering, primaries, Congress, lobbying, and third parties. See topics.

Selected coverage

Interviews

Is It Time to Break the Two-Party System?The Ezra Klein Show, May 2026
The House of Representatives is too small. Here is one way to fix it.Vox video, February 2026
What would a viable 3rd political party look like?CBS Mornings, October 2025
The Ruins of Winner-Take-All Governance and the Democratic Party's Dark AgeThe Open Mind, PBS, July 2025
Breaking down America's two-party systemCBS News, November 2024
If You Can Keep It: The role of third-party candidates in the 2024 election1A, NPR, May 2024
Lee Drutman on Expanding the Two-Party Political System in the U.S.C-SPAN Washington Journal, April 2024
What's going right in America?The Economist podcast, December 2022

Quoted in

Americans Want Populist Policies That Defy Traditional Political LabelsThe Wall Street Journal, October 2026
Voters are sick of the 2-party system. A new poll shows they're open to big changesNPR, August 2026
On redistricting and a bill to end gerrymanderingThe Atlantic, May 2026
This Big Idea Could Fix America's Gerrymandering MadnessNew York magazine, May 2026
A fix for gerrymandering both parties could loveBloomberg Opinion, May 2026
The political scientist reigniting interest in a multiparty systemThe Washington Post, Next 50, February 2026
Democrats are fighting fire with fire over redistricting – but will democracy burn?The Guardian, August 2025
Other countries have figured out a fix for the Texas redistricting crisisThe Washington Post, August 2025
Elon Musk wants to launch a competitive third party. It likely wouldn't be easyNPR, July 2025
Who will stop Donald Trump's drive for unchecked power?The Economist, April 2025
Donald Trump's victory was resounding. His second term will be tooThe Economist, November 2024
Which is the fairest electoral system? Mega-election year sparks debateNature, October 2024
How Harris could secure a historic winning record for Democrats in November – and still loseCNN, October 2024
No one is coming to save us from Trump versus Biden 2.0ABC News / 538, March 2024
On the logic of No LabelsThe Atlantic, January 2024
On fusion voting in New JerseyThe New York Times, November 2022
Does Hungary Offer a Glimpse of Our Authoritarian Future?The New Yorker, July 2022
Partisan 'doom loop'? The answer is more parties, this group saysRoll Call, April 2022
American Democracy Is Broken. Can Proportional Representation Fix It?The New Republic, March 2022

Bios

Short

Lee Drutman is a senior fellow in the Political Reform program at New America, co-founder of Fix Our House, and the author of Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop: The Case for Multiparty Democracy in America.

Medium

Long

Lee Drutman is a senior fellow in the Political Reform program at New America, co-founder of Fix Our House and the Center for Ballot Freedom, and a lecturer at Johns Hopkins University. His 2020 book Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop made the case for multiparty democracy and proportional representation, reshaping how reformers think about America's party system. His 2015 book The Business of America is Lobbying won the American Political Science Association's Robert A. Dahl Award for scholarship on democracy. He writes the newsletter Undercurrent Events and co-hosts the podcast Politics in Question. His work appears in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Foreign Policy, Politico, National Affairs and Vox, and he has testified before Congress on electoral reform. In 2026 he was named to the Washington Post's Next 50.