Politics

Politics

Power to the Parliaments

The COVID-19 crisis presents a unique and urgent opportunity to rebalance power away from executives and back to legislatures.

Aslı U. Bâli, Hanna Lerner

Politics

The Policy Bedrock of a True New Deal

Five policies we need now.

Felicia Wong

Politics

Why We Need Public Journalism

Quality news is essential for democracy. We must stage an intervention to save it.

Magda Konieczna

Politics, War & Security

The Conceit of American Indispensability

As both politicians and historians mine the 1940s for alternate visions of international order, we must guard against the presumption that the United States remains the benevolent center of global politics.

Sam Klug

Politics

Democracy for Losers

Some candidates who lose elections strengthen democracy, but others threaten the democratic system itself.

Jan-Werner Müller

Forum

What Does It Take to Get Women Elected?

If women’s suffrage was the battle of the twentieth century, women’s representation will be the battle of the twenty-first.

Jennifer M. Piscopo

Politics

From the Editors: The Politics of Care

Over the past six months, the COVID-19 pandemic has upended our individual and social lives. As we

Deborah Chasman, Joshua Cohen

Global Justice, Politics

Why Do Authoritarians Win?

Not by repudiating democracy but by simulating it, a new book argues.

William E. Scheuerman

Law & Justice, Politics

The Problem Isn't Just Police—It's Politics

In this interview, sociologist Alex Vitale explains how the policing crisis in the United States begins with politics—the decision to embrace neoliberal austerity and to turn the social problems it creates over to police.

Alex Vitale, Scott Casleton

Politics

Confederates in the Capitol

The National Statuary Collection announced the unification of the former slave economy’s emotional heartland with the heart of national government.

William Hogeland

Law & Justice, Politics

A Perfect Storm of Vulnerabilities Could Determine the 2020 Election

Here’s what we should do.

Jake Braun

Law & Justice, Politics

Power over Policing

A special project from Boston Review.