Tag: Democracy

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.

They are fighting in a global war over the future of agriculture. Modi is chocking the debate.

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.

Unless we bolster its foundations, our enfeebled democracy won’t be able to solve any of the daunting problems Biden has singled out as priorities.

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.

West German witchcraft trials after World War II reveal how political rupture can fuel magical thinking.

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.

Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation is a sham, but it is one the Constitution allows. There’s only one way out of this crisis: we must amend.