The ideological dimension of U.S. geopolitical competition with China has become unmistakable. Not only the United States, but other allies including those in Europe now use terms such as “systemic ...

How Biden’s fight against monopoly can guide his party to victory, and empower American to build a truly better future.

Symposium | For a Better Democracy: Proportional Representation Giving Minor Parties a Chance By Seth Masket from Fall 2023, No. 70 – 12 MIN READ Tagged political parties Proportional Representation ...

Those were the words offered as testimony at a congressional hearing in November of 2019 by Elsie Herring, activist, organizer, and environmental justice advocate. I first met Elsie a few years before ...

In a society where poor health is seen as a matter of personal responsibility, not the common good, the death of people with underlying health issues is sadly normalized.

Love it or hate it, the Deep State is now a part of our lexicon. The concept emerged from modern Turkey, where it refers to a secret cabal, usually in the security services and/or military, that ...

Book Reviews Meritocracy and its Discontents Michael Sandel says the hoi polloi are mad at the elites—and he thinks they have good reason to be. David Madland from Winter 2021, No. 59 – 11 MIN READ ...

After striving for months to overcome Senate obstruction, climate activists have good reason to tenaciously fight onward for Build Back Better Act (BBBA) priorities. Their eyes fixate on the prize: ...

When the new coronavirus arrived in the United States in January 2020, it hit an economy, society, and constitutional democracy fundamentally unprepared. As the scale of the challenge became clear, ...

The Words That Made Us: America’s Constitutional Conversation—1760-1840 By Akhil Amar • Basic Books • 2021 • 832 pages • $40 Ben Franklin famously told a questioner as he left Philadelphia’s ...

Lawmakers in the United States and elsewhere have recently taken steps to restrict access to TikTok, the wildly popular video-sharing app owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, on the grounds that it ...

This current moment is not the first time the United States has been divided. The 1960s, the Industrial Revolution, and of course the Civil War are just a few examples of periods of sharp clashes. Yet ...