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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.
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We must reject the legal liberalism that attempts to cordon off constitutional questions from democratic politics.
When we think, write, and act alongside movements, we help disrupt the everyday violence of law and imagine more radical transformation.
T. Thomas Fortune called for investment in education and a multiracial, working-class movement.
The lawless—and ongoing—administration of the prison by four American presidents underwrites the broader democratic crisis we face today.
The threat to American democracy springs, most fundamentally, from the social fragmentation wrought by a post-industrial economy.
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