Monetary Policy as if Democracy Matters, Downey asks us to consider how Congress might channel the will of the people to make ...

Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy by Katherine Stewart • Bloomsbury Publishing • 2025 • 352 pages • $30 In ...

The Empire State Building, then the world’s tallest building at 102 stories, was completed in 1931. Building that majestic structure, later called one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World by the ...

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 ...

The Editors of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas are Michael Tomasky (Editor), Jack Meserve (Managing Editor), and Delphine d'Amora (Associate Editor).

To defang Iran, and help Lebanon and Israel, we must demilitarize Hezbollah. Which means we'll have to talk to them.

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A year ago at this time we were all flying high, eagerly preparing to meet the challenges of “the middle-out moment.” Then came November’s brutal election. But while our spirits may have crashed, the ...

There was some debate after the election last year about whether it was, or was not, a “wipeout.” I argue that regardless of whether it was or wasn’t, Democrats must behave as if it was. If the party ...

One of the most pressing challenges of American democracy, if not the most pressing challenge, is finding an appropriate method of allocating political power among an increasingly diverse—in terms of ...