Melvin Rogers and Neil Roberts discuss the difficulty of keeping faith in a foundationally anti-Black republic.

The crisis here spells disaster for the future of public education.

In Foolproof, psychologist Sander van der Linden compares misinformation to viral infection—and claims to have a vaccine. 

Amna Akbar talks with Bernard Harcourt about his new book—and how we can build on existing forms of cooperation to transform society.

Real democratic participation in foreign policy is almost unimaginable today—but this wasn’t always the case.

Financial Times commentator Martin Wolf says "it's the economy, stupid." The truth is more complicated.

Robin D. G. Kelley on the midterm elections.

The tradition allows private and public life to meet, maintaining a baseline solidarity in civic life.

They may seem the cornerstone of democracy, but in reality they do little to promote it. There's a far better way to empower ordinary citizens: democracy by lottery.

From street demonstrations to song, dance, film, and poetry, women are advancing a long legacy of struggle against authoritarianism in Iran.

The U.S. federal system is flawed as it currently operates, but it is not destined to be unjust.

Noam Chomsky on lies, crimes, and savage capitalism.

Rather than seeking to quash "populism," we should broaden our vision of politics and make democracies more responsive to citizens.

Cruising extends the political value of the city as a space that brings us into contact with people who seem unlike us until we realize our shared desires.

Democratic theory points to two problems: unjust concentrations of power and a flawed theory of knowledge.

In the age of Trump, some progressives have embraced the division of power between state and federal government as a boon to democracy. We should be skeptical.

When we think, write, and act alongside movements, we help disrupt the everyday violence of law and imagine more radical transformation.

The lawless—and ongoing—administration of the prison by four American presidents underwrites the broader democratic crisis we face today.

New tools and technology policy might help, but politics come first.

Public interest journalism may not be salvageable. But more than being saved, it needs to be radically rethought.

Justice demands that we think not just about profit or performance, but above all about purpose.

Founded a century ago, the Chinese Communist Party has repeatedly defied predictions of its demise. Today it retains popular support by selectively repressing and responding to social demands.

Its authority derives not from unbiased scientists but from the institutions and norms that structure their work. Fighting mistrust requires more public engagement with policy, not unqualified deference to experts.

The more someone knows about us, the more they can influence us. We can wield democratic power only if our privacy is protected.

Narendra Modi’s government has used lockdown to force further neoliberalization and continue its assault on pro-democracy activists.

At a time of anxiety about fake news and conspiracy theories, philosophy can contribute to our most urgent cultural and political questions about how we come to believe what we think we know.

If we are to emerge from this era of crisis, we need legal thinking that operates on fundamentally different presumptions.

Leaders of the left abandoned the language of transformation in the 1980s—at a cost. Can it be regained?

The Republican Party has become a white nationalist party. If old fashioned politics can’t change that, we must consider alternatives.

Basic norms exist for political parties; Republicans don’t meet them.

Part two of a conversation on voter turnout, vote counting, and what we can expect now. 

COVID-19 is not just a public health crisis. It is also a crisis of public reason.

A debate is roiling about the aptness of comparing Trump to European fascists. But radical Black thinkers have long argued that racial slavery created its own unique form of American fascism.