One year into the president’s second term, the country’s institutions and civil society are still checking his authoritarian ...

Emily Bazelon, a lawyer and writer, thinks the courts have pushed back against Trump in important ways. But ultimately, as ...

After a shaky start, this function came to be fulfilled by political parties. Nowadays, parties are largely viewed as tribal, toxic and obstructive. But for more than two centuries they have played an ...

Mordecai Kurz considers how the root causes of the current populist-authoritarian moment can best be addressed.

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Donald Trump’s shock and awe campaign against American democracy is now in its eighth month. So much is happening, and so quickly, that even seasoned political experts are struggling to keep up.

American democracy is not a true democracy, but rather an oligarchic republic stabilized by elections, managed dissent, and a shared myth, which has never been designed to grant governing authority to ...

For the last 10 years, we’ve been hearing that President Donald Trump will preside over the end of democracy in America. In liberal circles, that assertion is often accepted as fact. For many, the ...

Amid the United States’ celebration of the 250-year anniversary of the American Revolution, journalist Osita Nwanevu says it may be time for the country to wipe the slate clean and build a new ...

About 10 minutes into the astonishing news conference at which President Donald Trump celebrated the lightning-strike ...

In a recent editorial, John Hall suggests that religion is an obstacle to American democracy — a relic of “magical thinking” that breeds conflict, division, and impedes progress, driven by modern ...

I’ve been thinking about this topic for a while, and a conversation in the Domestic Consequences threat finally inspired me to write it up. My question is, what do you think was the point of no return ...