Elections

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

What Totalitarianism Looks Like

Five signs of a totalitarian regime.

  • Christopher Lebron

Five Looming Geopolitical Crises of the Trump Administration

A reckless foreign policy could bring ruin at home and abroad.

  • Jonathan Kirshner

Leftists and Liberals in the Political Heartland

The Clinton-Sanders conflict reveals the contentious history of the Democratic Party—and holds the key to its future.

  • Doug Rossinow

The Will of the People

The Electoral College once served an urgent political purpose. The time has now come to abolish it.

  • Kenneth A. Taylor

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Garrison America and the Threat of Global War

The crisis of liberal capitalism has arrived, bringing us to the brink of total global war.

  • Alex de Waal

The New Politics of Hope

Where Trump whipped up faith in authoritarianism, Sanders revived hope in collective action. Sustaining that vision of social progress is the central task of the left today.

  • Ronald Aronson

After Trump

A pluralistic democracy is built on debate, disagreement, and wakeful action. This forum begins the conversation.

  • Joshua Cohen
with responses from
  • Janice Fine
  • Judith Levine
  • Robin D. G. Kelley
  • Christopher Petrella
  • William Howell
  • Nick Bromell

Voter Discrimination Starts Well Before Election Day

Voter ID laws burden minorities, but discrimination starts well before they reach the voting booth.

  • Ariel White

Hillary Clinton and the Unqualified Right to Abortion

She is the first major politician to support abortion without qualification. And she has never polled better with millennials.

  • Judith Levine

Real Citizens

Trump shows us that populism is not the same as legitimate protest—or democracy.

  • Jan-Werner Müller

NATO Has Problems, But Trump Won’t Fix Them

Trump may have just been running off at the mouth, but policy experts agree he’s not entirely wrong about our dysfunctional relationship with NATO.

  • Simon Waxman

The Logic of Misogyny

Moralistic or not, misogyny is not about hating women. It is about controlling them.

  • Kate Manne
with responses from
  • Imani Perry
  • Susan J. Brison
  • Amber A'Lee Frost
  • Christina Hoff Sommers
  • Doug Henwood
  • Tali Mendelberg
  • Vivian Gornick

As American as Trump

European analogies are everywhere, but Trump fits squarely in the homegrown tradition.

  • Cas Mudde

Trump and the End of Everything

Trump will have done real damage even if he doesn’t win.

  • Jonathan Kirshner

The Brazilian Coup’s Image Problem

New leaks prove the impeachment is intended to protect corrupt politicians.

  • Gianpaolo Baiocchi

The Base

With Bernie Sanders’s campaign reeling, what’s next for progressive activists?

  • Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Trump Voters Are Awakening America from Its Post-Racial Dream

Donald Trump’s backers force the United States to confront its long-submerged id.

  • Simon Waxman

Trump and Cruz Battle for Evangelical Hearts

Spiritual warfare on the campaign trail.

  • Laura Premack

The Futility of Liberal Backlash to Trump

He thrives on his opponents’ outrage.

  • Sam Rosen

As EU Technocrats Falter, the French Right Gains

The Front National is not in government, but it’s still making gains.

  • Arthur Goldhammer

One Nigeria Under God

Nigeria's recent election encouraged alliances among Muslims and Christians.

  • Laura Premack

Taking Back the States … Again

Why don’t Democratic efforts in state and local politics stick?

  • Andrew Mayersohn
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