The Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of the Common Good by Michael J. Sandel• Farrar, Straus and Giroux • 2020 • 288 pages • $28 Understanding how Donald Trump came to be elected President in 2016 and ...

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 ...

Realigners: Partisan Hacks, Political Visionaries, and the Struggle to Rule American Democracy by Timothy Shenk • Farrar, Straus and Giroux • 2022 • 464 pages • $30 In 2002, Ruy Teixeira and John B.

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.

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; ...

Dan Cantor wrote our Winter 2026 cover story on fusion voting. Here, he answers some common questions readers might have on the topic. “Do no harm” is the heart of the doctor’s Hippocratic Oath. It ...

Throughout his campaign, then former Vice President Joe Biden vowed to “Build Back Better.” Among the foreign policy community, Biden’s promise embodied the hope of a return to a pre-Trump world and a ...

Less than 36 hours after the polls closed, Democrats had formed up into their traditional circular firing squad—and this time, after they won the presidency! But Joe Biden’s margin over Donald Trump ...

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” —James Baldwin in No Name in the Street The COVID-19 pandemic is a historic public health disaster that has ...

“We, the people.” It is a very eloquent beginning. But when the document was completed on the seventeenth of September 1787 I was not included in that “We, the people.” I felt somehow for many years ...