The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution: Reconstructing The Economic Foundations of American Democracy By Joseph Fishkin and William Forbath • Harvard University Press • 2022 • 640 pages • $39.95 Allegiance ...

MAGA might seem like an anti-intellectual movement, but conservatism’s past and present thinkers are deeply complicit in it.

Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy (2025, Bloomsbury). Her previous book, The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism (2020, Bloomsbury), formed the basis ...

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

In early 2018, Larry Kramer, the dean of Stanford Law School and the president of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, which held assets of about $10 billion and disbursed around $400 million a ...

The environmental organization I lead was born out of a desire for change—revolutionary change at the time—to the reality that people were living in 1970. To make tap water safe to drink and air safe ...

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; ...

Artificial intelligence seems to be growing more powerful with each passing day. A model recently released by OpenAI can earn top scores on law school final exams, and ChatGPT and Gemini can ...

America has a billionaire problem. When just 300,000 households control $40 trillion, more than five times what the federal government spent last year, the result is the systematic purchase of our ...

Policymakers from across the political spectrum are endorsing the abundance agenda, with voices ranging from Jared Polis to Zohran Mamdani embracing the framing and even the policies. No wonder, since ...

Stable, consolidated democracies are defined, in large part, by the durability of their formal institutions. Citizens, elected officials, and political parties engage in politics expecting democratic ...

When we think about economic growth, we generally think about inventions and technology—from the combustion engine to the iPhone—and about the effects of capital accumulation, like big dams or ...