Though many are worried about the potential economic harm of Donald Trump’s efforts to undermine the independence of the ...

Stable, consolidated democracies are defined, in large part, by the durability of their formal institutions. Citizens, elected officials, and political parties engage in politics expecting democratic ...

It’s official: Facebook and Google have taken over digital advertising. Not only that, they’re now the leading players in all advertising, accounting for nearly half of total ad spending in the United ...

One of the biggest long-term threats facing American democracy is also one of the least recognized. It is the fact that those minding the store—the nonprofit government watchdogs, political and tech ...

The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again by Robert D. Putnam and Shaylyn Romney Garrett• Simon & Schuster • 2020 • 480 pages • $32.50 Robert Putnam has done it ...

When a faulty door plug explosively blew out the side of Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 three miles above Portland, Oregon, back in January, leading to the massive recent corporate shakeup at the company ...

The November 2020 presidential election marked a moment of real optimism for those looking for a politics beyond neoliberalism. Democrats, buffeted by four years of the Trump Administration and facing ...

Remember the Dark Ages in America for children? Child labor? No public schools? No vaccinations? Now, right-wing politicians, Christian nationalists, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are waging a multifront ...

America is having a reform moment. According to Pew Research, hundreds of jurisdictions are adopting or considering “alternative” electoral systems. Several began doing so only in the past few years.

The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America by Andrew W. Kahrl • University of Chicago Press • 2024 • 456 pages • $35 “No taxation without representation” is often ...

Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein • Farrar, Straus and Giroux • 2023 • 416 pages • $30 Long before everyone else figured it out, feminists knew that Naomi Wolf had wandered ...

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: ...