It isn’t gerrymandering. It’s the existence of single-member districts in the first place. It was never designed to help ...

The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America by Andrew W. Kahrl • University of Chicago Press • 2024 • 456 pages • $35 “No taxation without representation” is often ...

The interim National Security Strategic Guidance (NSSG) issued by the Biden Administration in early March 2021 articulated a central role for democracy and democratic values in guiding and shaping ...

The pitchforks are out. The question is: Whose heads belong on the forks? One reason for the intense anger and thirst for revanchism in our society may be the sustained growth of economic inequality ...

It remains to be seen if the Democrats can still pass parts of the Build Back Better (BBB) proposal, but there is widespread support, in particular, for its program to extend and expand energy tax ...

Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy by Katherine Stewart • Bloomsbury Publishing • 2025 • 352 pages • $30 In 1964, when I was seven years old, my family took a day ...

The murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis in 2020 spurred a “racial reckoning”: a surge of interest not only in reforming policing, but also in challenging us to understand the role of race in our ...

American Covenant: How the Constitution Unified Our Nation—and Could Again by Yuval Levin • Basic Books • 2024 • 352 pages • $32 No Democracy Lasts Forever: How the Constitution Threatens the United ...

What’s in a name? Franklin Delano Roosevelt called himself a Christian, a Democrat, and a liberal. He did not call himself a democratic socialist, or any other kind of socialist. He was, in fact, no ...

Stating the obvious: Ours is a government (and thus a society) in crisis. All three branches of our federal government are led by men who do not believe in pluralism. Compromise is for the weak; ...

In 2017, while I was serving as the mayor of Ithaca, New York, I was one of two dozen young officials from around the world who took part in the Brussels Forum Young Professionals Summit, and we met ...

Polarized by Degrees: How the Diploma Divide and the Culture War Transformed American Politics by Matt Grossmann and David A. Hopkins • Cambridge University Press • 2024 • 398 pages • $30 Picture a ...