Politics

Trump and the End of Everything

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

  • Jonathan Kirshner

Rights vs. Duties

In the age of human rights, the language of duties has withered.

  • Samuel Moyn

Should the Middle Class Fear the World’s Poor?

Plutocracy, not global competition, harms the middle class.

  • Marshall Steinbaum

The Not-So-Revolutionary Single Woman

The family is changing. Will the social contract catch up?

  • Jessa Crispin

The Privatization of Hope

Among the casualties of neoliberalism is the very possibility of solidarity.

  • Ronald Aronson

Winners and Losers in Brazil’s Presidential Impeachment

Is there a political coup underway?

  • Gianpaolo Baiocchi

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Out with the Old, in with the Old

Lessons from Iceland’s brush with the Panama Papers.

  • Janet Elise Johnson

Are Women the Silent Sex?

Getting women to participate in group decision-making takes more than superficial equality.

  • Tali Mendelberg
  • Christopher F. Karpowitz

On Stone Mountain

Bill Clinton, white supremacy, and the birth of the modern Democratic Party.

  • Christopher Petrella

Why Spain Won’t Quit the Eurozone

Weaker European economies chafe against an anti-democratic euro.

  • Mark Weisbrot

Survey Says . . .

Polling can be useful, even when imprecise

  • Claude S. Fischer

Beyond Freedom and Equality

The democratic value of dignity.

  • Nick Bromell

Do We Need a New Constitutional Convention?

A discussion of the fear and inertia baked into U.S. politics.

  • Richard Kreitner
  • Sanford Levinson

We’re Going to Cuba! (Or not.)

Travel to the island nation won’t be what you’re picturing.

  • Sarah Hill

In San Bernardino, a Crime—Not an Act of War

The massacre led immediately to national security fantasies.

  • Joseph Margulies

The Riptide of Technocracy

Is a centralized European Union compatible with democracy?

  • Jonathan White

Assassinating Terrorists Does Not Work

It creates more violent terrorists and leaves no one who can talk peace.

  • Alex de Waal

In Memory of Sheldon Wolin (1922–2015)

The revolutionary theorist sought not liberal stability but democratic adventure.

  • Anne Norton

Reliable Rebel

Jeremy Corbyn and the Revival of the Radical Left

  • Martin O’Neill

Grandparents Today

Lily Tomlin and Julia Garner in Grandma.

  • Claude S. Fischer

Thoreau’s Public Mind

The author of Walden was not an enemy of civic life.

  • Simon Waxman

Half a Loaf

In Israel and Palestine, two states are still better than one.

  • Assaf Sharon

The Growing Orthodox Threat to Israeli Democracy

It is becoming impossible to ignore the growing theocratic elements in a nation that sees itself as the only democracy in the Middle East.

  • Elad Uzan

The Problem with David Brooks

In true American style, Brooks understands our lives to be the products of individual will alone.

  • Claude S. Fischer
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