The historic labor act faces unprecedented assaults in the Trump era. Here’s what that means for our democracy.

Cohn served as chief counsel to Joseph McCarthy in the early 1950s, when the Wisconsin senator was riding roughshod over the ...

There are only 7 percent of the [federal] workforce under the age of 30.” Stier’s group is trying to increase young people’s awareness of the opportunities government offers for “making a difference.” ...

Hamilton College. His most recent book is Reds: The Tragedy of American Communism (Basic Books, 2024).

Abundance also requires a full reimagining of public and private investment in things like housing, clean energy development, and modernized transportation networks—areas where current market and ...

For more than a decade, American democracy has been in a steep decline. We have known for a long time that our democracy has become more polarized and dysfunctional since the slash and burn politics ...

President Joe Biden stated at his first presidential press conference in March 2021 that democracy is in a “battle” with autocracy for the future. He continued, “We’ve got to prove democracy works.” A ...

The Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, planned by Robert Moses, ripped through many poorer neighborhoods, cutting them off from better-off areas. While much important attention has been placed on the history ...

We must approach the world’s most populous country with an eye to its wide variation and profound contradictions. This is true of China’s changing role on the world stage—its trade policies, military ...

Donald Trump is the ultimate unilateralist, and not a particularly talented one. He undermines and demeans close allies. He pulls out of treaties and international accords designed to advance our own ...

Photo by Ishikawa Ken via CC 2.0. The current economic recession is fast stripping away any illusions that the American social safety is close to being adequate. Without the new aid being distributed ...

This Sunday, September 30, Democracy board member and frequent contributor Nick Hanauer will receive the 2018 Harvard and MIT Humanist of the Year award in Cambridge, Massachusetts.Here, we asked Greg ...