To what extent does or should populism exclude certain types of issues and political commitments/alliances, and should the Democratic Party respond to the electoral ...

Just two years ago, this would have been an extraordinarily radical essay. Its premise is that court-packing—increasing the number of seats on the Supreme Court to change its ideological makeup—is, in ...

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The authoritarian threat won’t recede until the world’s democracies—the United States most of all—show the world that they uphold democratic norms and deliver for their people.

The United States stands out among Western democracies for its extreme partisan political polarization. It has reached the level of “pernicious polarization,” by which I mean a division of society ...

It was about five years ago that I began thinking about a special issue of Democracy on the Constitution. I was frustrated with the Electoral College and the Senate even then, which led me to do some ...

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The Right of the People: Democracy and the Case for a New American Founding by Osita Nwanevu • Random House • 2025 • 384 pages • $31 In 2013, The New Yorker published an essay observing that one of ...

About 232 million people, roughly 3 percent of the world’s population, are immigrants. Just over 40 million of them are in the United States, accounting for just over 13 percent of the U.S. population ...

The New Conservatives: Restoring America’s Commitment to Family, Community, and Industry edited by Oren Cass • Radius Book Group • 2025 • 320 pages • $32.50 In evaluating their policy agenda, I think ...

For the longest time, I kept a cartoon from Matt Groening’s “Life in Hell” series hanging above my desk. It features his character Bongo the one-eared rabbit, looking up at a larger, angry, looming ...

Zbig: The Life of Zbigniew Brzezinski, America’s Great Power Prophet by Edward Luce • Simon & Schuster • 2025 • 560 pages • $35 Zbigniew Brzezinski’s determinedly hawkish views about the Cold War made ...