Republicans Ran a Dysfunctional House. Voters Shrugged and Re-elected Them. The success of the G.O.P. push to keep the majority suggests that it paid no political price for the chaos and paralysis of its past two years in control of the House.

In Milwaukee, a G.O.P. Transformation From Dysfunctional to Unified On Tuesday, Republicans effectively took a victory lap in the middle of the presidential race, expressing a sense of invincibility at their convention.

What We Can Do to Make the House Less Dysfunctional We need to rethink party primaries — which give our politicians all the wrong incentives.

David Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing: The Dysfunctional Pursuit of Relevance in Educational Research David Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing: The Dysfunctional Pursuit of Relevance in Educational Research In this paper, I explore the issue of relevance in educational research. I argue that the chronic efforts by researchers to pursue relevance is counterproductive. Paradoxically, trying to make research more relevant actu…