Populists win despite delivery: identity politics, grievance, and scapegoating trump economic performance and competence.

Across cultures, proverbs distill the wisdom of lived human experience into compressed language. In Igbo cosmology, proverbs, ...

The Constitution is lauded as the cornerstone of our democracy. But what if it’s the reason we don’t actually have one?

The global democratic order is facing a crisis not seen in decades . According to the 2025 Democracy Report from the ...

General Lucky Irabor’s SCARS leaves readers not with despair, but with hope — the hope that confronting our scars honestly is ...

Countries where democracy is in trouble share a common pattern, and it’s a worrying one for the United States. Credit...Photo illustration by Ricardo Tomás Supported by By Amanda Taub Amanda Taub ...

One correspondent of mine writes that “most Americans did not know who and what they were voting for,” adding that few people would have looked at the 982-page Project 2025, a “daunting document.” I ...

In this ambitious work of political theory, Bagg argues that defenders of Western democracy tend to struggle because they fail to grapple with underlying material disparities of economic and social ...

According to polling data, 62 percent of Americans favor the government being responsible for the health coverage of all people in the country. Sixty-five percent of Americans polled favored the ...

What, some may wonder, just happened to our supposedly sacred democracy? A growing group of dissident right-wingers has sought to supply an explanation. United around the premise that the governance ...

When we look at people who are at the top of their field, what do we know about how they got there? We used to think that people were successful thanks to their genetic make-up—their inborn talents ...