Tag: Democracy

Critics are right: the algorithms that increasingly run the world can be dangerous. Are human systems always better?

Its potential to enhance civic engagement crucially depends on what policymakers want to learn from the public.

A conversation with Wendy Brown on the U.S. presidential election, the exclusions liberal democracy is built on, and why we must aim at more than restoring its mythical former splendor.

Can better decision-making procedures ever achieve real democracy?

Backed by the Heritage Foundation, the initiative seeks to undermine longstanding safeguards against abuses of executive power.

For generations of American radicals, the path to liberation required a new constitution, not forced removal.

How should LGBT activism think about state power?

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.

An interview with Robin D. G. Kelley.

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.