Democracy

For American Corporations, Winning Is Not Enough

Standing Rock shows us that businesses don’t simply silence protestors, they also discredit and bankrupt them.

  • Lauren Carasik

Against Second-Rate Democracy in Kenya

Citizens of African countries are expected to accede to a lower political standard than real democracy. Not only does this perpetuate the old colonial imagination, it is also fundamentally wrong.

  • Aziz Rana

Monopoly Men

After an eventful summer in Silicon Valley, there is blood in the water. At stake is democracy itself.

  • K. Sabeel Rahman

No Eulogy for the Living

An open letter to the Philippines.

  • Miguel Syjuco

What White Supremacists Want

Trump's paternalistic language of care draws an exceptional circle around whites only.

  • Bonnie Honig

Bureaucrats to the Rescue

Following Trump’s election, bureaucracy has gone from being a thorn in the side of democracy to being its saving grace. But bureaucrats are also frontline workers who grapple independently with complex questions of democracy.

  • Bernardo Zacka

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The German Left Is Its Own Worst Enemy

Could Germany's left-wing parties unseat Angela Merkel in Sunday's election? Only if they bury the hatchet.

  • Paul Hockenos

Kenya’s New Electoral Authoritarianism

Elections are now used to legitimate authoritarian regimes, not herald liberal democracy. Nowhere is this more apparent than in Kenya.

  • Aziz Rana

What Is Putin’s Endgame?

Russiagate is causing more stress than glee for Putin, who always thought Hillary would win.

  • Thomas Graham
  • Rajan Menon

A Witch-Hunt in Turkey

After Turkey's failed 2016 coup, retribution has become a farcical national obsession.

  • Umar Farooq

Mourning in America

Why the left needs melancholy.

  • Peter E. Gordon

Populism’s Perfect Storm

The very forces that sustain populist politics could eventually undermine populism.

  • Rogers Brubaker

For Labour, Victory Next Time

Were Labour's gains in the recent British election overblown, or is there real cause for hope?

  • Martin O’Neill

How George Osborne and Ed Miliband Saved Labour

It has not been an easy path from Blairite centrism to radical socialist hope.

  • Martin O’Neill

America’s Case of Mistaken Identity

Building a national identity may require offering special accomodations to diverse groups, including those we don't agree with.

  • Rogers M. Smith

The Ground Beneath Corbyn’s Feet

Theresa May came to bury the Labour Party, but instead she and her party have been deeply damaged.

  • Martin O’Neill

Polanyi, the Failed Prophet of Moral Economics

Polanyi gave us a vital counterpoint to the hegemony of political economics. But how far can he take us?

  • Jeremy Adelman

Democrats and Labor: Frenemies Forever?

The Democratic Party has hastened the demise of the labor movement, but unions have little choice but to stick with them.

  • Erik Loomis

Habermas and the Fate of Democracy

A biography reveals Habermas’s commitment to a democratic ideal.

  • William E. Scheuerman

How People Vote

New theories of voting behavior explain bad outcomes, but are they convincing?

  • Niko Kolodny

The GOP’s Anti-Democratic Fetish Runs Deep

Here’s the real reason the GOP made peace with Trump.

  • William E. Scheuerman

Funding the Resistance

Taking a stand against Trump has material consequences for government workers. Here’s how we can help.

  • Christopher Kutz

What Totalitarianism Looks Like

Five signs of a totalitarian regime.

  • Christopher Lebron

The President’s House Is Empty

Opting out, as Trump has done with the White House, is a neoliberal habit. But who bears the cost?

  • Bonnie Honig
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