American Covenant: How the Constitution Unified Our Nation—and Could Again by Yuval Levin • Basic Books • 2024 • 352 pages • ...

One of the biggest long-term threats facing American democracy is also one of the least recognized. It is the fact that those ...

Imagine a world where the information environment is a thriving hub of diverse ideas, where information flows freely but ...

A s readers of this journal know so well, few eras have been as pivotal for American democracy as the present. After years of ...

Law professor Jeff Kosseff calls it “the 26 words that created the internet.” Senator Ron Wyden, one of its co-authors, calls ...

Too often, when progressives talk about ways to save and strengthen democracy, they’re talking only to themselves, with grand ...

Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump By Spencer Ackerman • Viking • 2021 • 448 pages • $30 Shortly before midnight on May 1, 2011, President Obama made an unusual, ...

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Our friend Nick Hanauer, the Seattle venture capitalist, has established himself in recent years as probably the leading voice among the zillionaire class for a sensible progressive economic policy ...

Neoliberalism isn’t just a set of economic precepts—it’s also an architecture of laws passed to reinforce those precepts. Those laws must be changed.

We’re now a year and change into this chilling era, and yet it’s still shocking. Every day, it seems, we have occasion to say: He did what?! Sometimes more than once a day. We all spend a lot of time ...