Progressives have lost power in Washington. Every national institution now lies in the hands of the Republican Party. Given the slim chances of Democrats’ winning back Congress in 2018, many think ...

Just two years ago, this would have been an extraordinarily radical essay. Its premise is that court-packing—increasing the number of seats on the Supreme Court to change its ideological makeup—is, in ...

Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s first sex discrimination case came to her, improbably enough, from a man. The man who handed her the case was her husband, Martin Ginsburg; the gentleman she represented was a ...

The Americans who brought the Obama era so suddenly to an end were a mixed lot. Many were straight-ticket Republicans who would have voted for any nominee the party put forward. Others were moral ...

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

Over the past eight years the Democrats have lost more than 1,000 seats at the national and state level. Some of this is a function of GOP-led gerrymandering and vote suppression. But some of this is ...

Beijing’s Global Media Offensive: China’s Uneven Campaign to Influence Asia and the World by Joshua Kurlantzick • Oxford University Press • 2022 • 560 pages • $30 Policymakers and advocates on all ...

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In 1988, George H. W. Bush, deadlocked in a tight race for President against Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, ran an ad against Dukakis featuring Willie Horton. Horton, in prison for ...

Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century By George Packer • Knopf • 2019 • 608 pages • $30 George Packer’s captivating but not entirely convincing new biography, Our Man: Richard ...