The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America by Andrew W. Kahrl • University of Chicago Press • 2024 • 456 pages • $35 “No taxation without representation” is often ...

After striving for months to overcome Senate obstruction, climate activists have good reason to tenaciously fight onward for Build Back Better Act (BBBA) priorities. Their eyes fixate on the prize: ...

We are at a pivotal moment in the writing of this country’s story of democracy. In cities and towns across America, something remarkable is underway. Far from the toxicity of our national politics, ...

What Really Went Wrong: The West and the Failure of Democracy in the Middle East by Fawaz A. Gerges • Yale University Press • 2024 • 336 pages • $28 The 2010 Arab Spring was a moment of real hope for ...

Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein • Farrar, Straus and Giroux • 2023 • 416 pages • $30 Long before everyone else figured it out, feminists knew that Naomi Wolf had wandered ...

America is having a reform moment. According to Pew Research, hundreds of jurisdictions are adopting or considering “alternative” electoral systems. Several began doing so only in the past few years.

On November 7, 2020, Joe Biden used his victory address to speak directly to the Black voters who resuscitated his presidential campaign. The African-American voting bloc rescued a campaign on life ...

Though many are worried about the potential economic harm of Donald Trump’s efforts to undermine the independence of the ...

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 ...

The Words That Made Us: America’s Constitutional Conversation—1760-1840 By Akhil Amar • Basic Books • 2021 • 832 pages • $40 Ben Franklin famously told a questioner as he left Philadelphia’s ...

How Cold War liberalism abandoned the vocabulary of hope—and how we still live with the consequences.

It was about five years ago that I began thinking about a special issue of Democracy on the Constitution. I was frustrated with the Electoral College and the Senate even then, which led me to do some ...