Elections

How Not to Defeat Authoritarianism

Moderation used to help Democrats win, but its advantages now have been greatly exaggerated.

  • Adam Bonica
  • Jake Grumbach
with responses from
  • Cori Bush
  • Amanda Litman
  • Matthew Yglesias
  • G. Elliott Morris
  • Julia Serano
  • Eric Rauchway
  • Suzanne Mettler & Trevor E. Brown
  • Thomas Ferguson
  • Timothy Shenk
  • Jared Abbott & Milan Loewer
  • Jenifer Fernandez Ancona
  • Lily Geismer
  • Danielle Wiggins
  • William A. Galston
  • Henry Burke

The Kitchen Tables Behind Mamdani’s Kitchen-Table Strategy

Staging sites aren’t new to political campaigns, but they’ve never been done like this before.

  • nia t. evans

How to Lie with (Political) Statistics

Inside the data wars over Democratic strategy.

  • Lily Hu

Will Democrats Learn from the Establishment’s Loss?

The David Hogg affair, Zohran Mamdani’s win, and the future of the Democratic coalition.

  • David Austin Walsh

How to Buy an Election

The problem is no longer “money in politics.” It’s just money.

  • Mark Schmitt

The Boomerang Comes Back

How the U.S.-backed war on Palestine is expanding authoritarianism at home—from Project Esther to violence at the border.

  • Noura Erakat

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“It’s Our Job to Be Popular”

A conversation with Maurice Mitchell, National Director of the Working Families Party, on the way forward after the Democrats’ loss.

  • Maurice Mitchell
  • Daniel Cantor

Where Did the Labor Vote Go?

Until unions open the gates, they won’t deliver working-class voters to Democrats.

  • Janice Fine
  • Benjamin Schlesinger

Notes on Fighting Trumpism

To mobilize the abandoned working class, we need to revive the idea of solidarity.

  • Robin D. G. Kelley

The Eighteenth Brumaire of Donald J. Trump

The tragic reascent of Trump is not an anomaly to democracy but its fatal flaw.

  • Peter E. Gordon

The Violent Exhaustion of Liberal Democracy

A conversation with Wendy Brown on the U.S. presidential election, the exclusions liberal democracy is built on, and why we must aim at more than restoring its mythical former splendor.

  • Wendy Brown
  • Francis Wade

Forget Fusion, Look to Alaska!

Open primaries and ranked choice are better paths forward.

  • Danielle Allen

The Real Engine of Change

There’s no substitute for rebuilding a vibrant civil society.

  • Deepak Bhargava
  • Arianna Jiménez

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

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

Liberals Are to Blame for the Rise of J. D. Vance

Their long embrace of “responsible conservatives” has always been dangerous.

  • David Austin Walsh
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