Norm Ornstein

Norm Ornstein is a contributing editor and columnist for National Journal and a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. More

Norm Ornstein is a contributing editor and columnist for National Journal and a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. He served as codirector of the AEI-Brookings Election Reform Project and participates in AEI's Election Watch series. He also serves as a senior counselor to the Continuity of Government Commission. Ornstein led a working group of scholars and practitioners that helped shape the law, known as McCain-Feingold, that reformed the campaign financing system. He was elected as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2004. His many books include The Permanent Campaign and Its Future; The Broken Branch: How Congress Is Failing America and How to Get It Back on Track, with Thomas E. Mann; and, most recently the New York Times bestseller, It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics of Extremism, also with Tom Mann.