Democracy

Power, Not Process

Being pro-party means more than multiplying ballot lines.

  • Daniel Schlozman
  • Sam Rosenfeld

Beyond Elections

The single-minded focus on voting is part of the problem.

  • Josh Lerner

A Modest Proposal

Reviving fusion is both a good idea and eminently feasible.

  • Tabatha Abu El-Haj

A Path to Multiple Parties

Single-member districts are the real issue.

  • Grant Tudor
  • Cerin Lindrensavage

Sign Me Up!

Our two-party system has destroyed our civic health.

  • Joel Rogers

The Wrong Direction

Countries with multiple parties aren’t faring better.

  • Ian Shapiro

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The Labor of Politics

After Democrats abandoned labor, fusion empowered it.

  • Bob Master

Building a United Front

Fusion gives disaffected voters a powerful voice.

  • Maurice Mitchell
  • Doran Schrantz

Escaping the Doom Loop

Fusion is the first, and most powerful, step toward a better party system.

  • Lee Drutman

The Case for More Parties

A path beyond our broken two-party system.

  • Lee Drutman
with responses from
  • Danielle Allen
  • Deepak Bhargava & Arianna Jiménez
  • Daniel Schlozman & Sam Rosenfeld
  • Josh Lerner
  • Tabatha Abu El-Haj
  • Grant Tudor & Cerin Lindrensavage
  • Joel Rogers
  • Ian Shapiro
  • Bob Master
  • Maurice Mitchell & Doran Schrantz

Democratic Disenchantment

Can better decision-making procedures ever achieve real democracy?

  • Samuel Bagg

From the Editors: We Need More Parties

Introducing our Summer 2024 issue.

  • Boston Review

Inside Project 2025

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

  • James Goodwin

Democracy Was a Decolonial Project

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

  • Aziz Rana

Queering the State

How should LGBT activism think about state power?

  • Samuel Clowes Huneke
  • Hugh Ryan

Democracy in the Real World

Theories of justice map what a good society should look like, but they generally offer few details about how to get there.

  • Thad Williamson

Surviving a Wretched State

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

  • Melvin Rogers
  • Neil Roberts

An Open Letter from Faculty at West Virginia University

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

  • Rose Casey
  • Jessica Wilkerson
  • Johanna Winant

The Fake News about Fake News

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

  • Daniel Williams

All Roads Lead to Cooperation

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

  • Amna A. Akbar
  • Bernard E. Harcourt
  • Anthony Morgan

Mass Destruction

How democratic participation in foreign policy became unthinkable.

  • Daniel Bessner

What Will It Take to Save Democracy?

Financial Times commentator Martin Wolf says “it’s the economy, stupid.” The truth is more complicated.

  • Pranab Bardhan

“Fascism never disappears because people come to their senses.”

An interview with Robin D. G. Kelley.

  • Robin D. G. Kelley
  • Deborah Chasman

Lunchtime in Italy

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

  • Jonathan Levy
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