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 ...

Experiments across the world have tried to remove politicians themselves from decision-making. And they’ve worked—well, kind ...

As with everything else, Donald Trump is pushing the pardon process to the breaking point. Can it be salvaged?

We’ve become accustomed, watching the Democratic debates, to hearing the moderators focus on the practicability of candidates’ plans to move to Medicare for All, reform immigration policy, and fight ...

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 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).

Democratizing Finance: The Radical Promise of Fintech • Marion Laboure and Nicolas Deffrennes • Harvard University Press • 2022 • 288 pages • $35 It’s hard to prove this beyond anecdotes, but a ...

For several years the opioid crisis has been recognized as a major national catastrophe. Millions of people have become addicted to the new generation of opioid drugs. In many cases, this addiction ...

Industrial policy has traditionally been conceived of as a strategic tool that nations use to gain “market share” in the context of international trade. Over the last five decades or so, the focus of ...

At the start of this school year, a picture of two young girls sitting outside a Taco Bell swept across the Internet. They were not headed to the restaurant for lunch. Instead, they were seen ...

President Joe Biden and his team have repeatedly declared that “America is back.” The rest of the world is not so sure. Washington would promote multilateralism and champion democracy; American ...