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Tag: Democracy

Thad Williamson

Melvin Rogers and Neil Roberts discuss the difficulty of keeping faith in a foundationally anti-Black republic.

Neil Roberts, Melvin Rogers

The crisis here spells disaster for the future of public education.

Johanna Winant, Jessica Wilkerson, Rose Casey

In Foolproof, psychologist Sander van der Linden compares misinformation to viral infection—and claims to have a vaccine. 

Daniel Williams

Amna Akbar talks with Bernard Harcourt about his new book—and how we can build on existing forms of cooperation to transform society.

Anthony Morgan, Amna A. Akbar, Bernard E. Harcourt

Real democratic participation in foreign policy is almost unimaginable today—but this wasn’t always the case.

Daniel Bessner

Financial Times commentator Martin Wolf says "it's the economy, stupid." The truth is more complicated.

Pranab Bardhan

Robin D. G. Kelley on the midterm elections.

Deborah Chasman, Robin D. G. Kelley

The tradition allows private and public life to meet, maintaining a baseline solidarity in civic life.

Jonathan Levy

They may seem the cornerstone of democracy, but in reality they do little to promote it. There's a far better way to empower ordinary citizens: democracy by lottery.

Nicholas Coccoma

From street demonstrations to song, dance, film, and poetry, women are advancing a long legacy of struggle against authoritarianism in Iran.

Nojang Khatami

The U.S. federal system is flawed as it currently operates, but it is not destined to be unjust.

Danielle Allen

Noam Chomsky on lies, crimes, and savage capitalism.

David Barsamian, Noam Chomsky

Rather than seeking to quash "populism," we should broaden our vision of politics and make democracies more responsive to citizens.

Alberto Polimeni

Cruising extends the political value of the city as a space that brings us into contact with people who seem unlike us until we realize our shared desires.

Jack Parlett

Democratic theory points to two problems: unjust concentrations of power and a flawed theory of knowledge.

Matthew Cole

In the age of Trump, some progressives have embraced the division of power between state and federal government as a boon to democracy. We should be skeptical.

Lisa L. Miller

Forum

We must reject the legal liberalism that attempts to cordon off constitutional questions from democratic politics.

Joseph Fishkin, William E. Forbath

When we think, write, and act alongside movements, we help disrupt the everyday violence of law and imagine more radical transformation.

Jocelyn Simonson, Sameer Ashar, Amna A. Akbar

T. Thomas Fortune called for investment in education and a multiracial, working-class movement.

Robin D. G. Kelley
Cities must empower historically marginalized communities to shape how public funds are spent.
Celina Su
Sunlight-friendly architecture could heat and illuminate buildings without expending any electricity.
David McDermott Hughes

The lawless—and ongoing—administration of the prison by four American presidents underwrites the broader democratic crisis we face today.

Baher Azmy

The threat to American democracy springs, most fundamentally, from the social fragmentation wrought by a post-industrial economy.

Jake Grumbach, Ruth Berins Collier

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