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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.
The government—not the market—is the only viable solution to some of our greatest challenges.
Thailand has been gripped by the largest wave of protest in years, forcing a reckoning between the country’s dual structures of democracy and monarchy.
Talk of American freedom has long been connected to the presumed right of whites to dominate everyone else.
Without pressure from social movements, they won’t produce meaningful and deeply needed reform.
Workers deserve substantive policy reforms that point the way to a better future, especially in this year of unprecedented crisis.
Judith Butler’s ‘The Force of Nonviolence’ advocates for pacifism but neglects much of the tradition’s philosophy and feminist theory.
We need to rebalance power away from executives and back to legislatures.
Quality news is essential for democracy. We must stage an intervention to save it.
Constitutional crisis won’t be fixed by a few isolated reforms. We need to rethink the Constitution from the ground up.
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If women’s suffrage was the battle of the twentieth century, women’s representation will be the battle of the twenty-first.
Though Modi's government draws concern today, the country's constitutional history suggests a framework for creating democracy in unlikely settings.
Some candidates who lose elections strengthen democracy, but others threaten the democratic system itself.
The dramatic history of Guatemala’s National Police archive illustrates the crucial role of state archives in protecting democracy.
Not by repudiating democracy but by simulating it, a new book argues.
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