is a book critic in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His latest book, Only a Voice: Essays, has just been published by Verso.

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.

Every society must choose which goods and services—from education to roads to health care—to provide publicly and which to relegate to the realm of individual responsibility. Over the past five ...

How Biden’s fight against monopoly can guide his party to victory, and empower American to build a truly better future.

The current moment may seem like an odd time to herald a promising renewal of political leadership in the United States. In the presidential election, two men—one in his ninth decade, the other about ...

On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court of the United States handed down a decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that explicitly stated that no constitutional right to abortion exists ...

Symposium | For a Better Democracy: Proportional Representation Giving Minor Parties a Chance By Seth Masket from Fall 2023, No. 70 – 12 MIN READ Tagged political parties Proportional Representation ...

A recent ChatGPT query of “What are the five most common words used to describe politicians?” yielded the following results, in order: corrupt, opportunistic, charismatic, manipulative, and ...

Symposium | The Future of Global Democracy Elevating Pro-Democracy Republicans By Sarah Longwell from Fall 2022, No. 66 – 13 MIN READ Tagged Democracy Illiberalism Republicans ...

It is vital that the Biden Administration fully take advantage of post-election popularity to accomplish as much as possible.

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 ...

The ideological dimension of U.S. geopolitical competition with China has become unmistakable. Not only the United States, but other allies including those in Europe now use terms such as “systemic ...