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Support for pro-Trump Republicans remains driven by relatively well-off whites in fast-growing, rapidly diversifying suburbs—not by economic despair in rural America.
Jacob Whiton
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
Five policies we need now.
Felicia Wong
Quality news is essential for democracy. We must stage an intervention to save it.
Magda Konieczna
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
Some candidates who lose elections strengthen democracy, but others threaten the democratic system itself.
Jan-Werner Müller
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
Over the past six months, the COVID-19 pandemic has upended our individual and social lives. As we
Deborah Chasman, Joshua Cohen
Not by repudiating democracy but by simulating it, a new book argues.
William E. Scheuerman
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
The National Statuary Collection announced the unification of the former slave economy’s emotional heartland with the heart of national government.
William Hogeland
Here’s what we should do.
Jake Braun
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