About 232 million people, roughly 3 percent of the world’s population, are immigrants. Just over 40 million of them are in the United States, accounting for just over 13 percent of the U.S. population ...

Just two years ago, this would have been an extraordinarily radical essay. Its premise is that court-packing—increasing the number of seats on the Supreme Court to change its ideological makeup—is, in ...

The Right of the People: Democracy and the Case for a New American Founding by Osita Nwanevu • Random House • 2025 • 384 pages • $31 In 2013, The New Yorker published an essay observing that one of ...

When we think about economic growth, we generally think about inventions and technology—from the combustion engine to the iPhone—and about the effects of capital accumulation, like big dams or ...

Zbig: The Life of Zbigniew Brzezinski, America’s Great Power Prophet by Edward Luce • Simon & Schuster • 2025 • 560 pages • $35 Zbigniew Brzezinski’s determinedly hawkish views about the Cold War made ...

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For the longest time, I kept a cartoon from Matt Groening’s “Life in Hell” series hanging above my desk. It features his character Bongo the one-eared rabbit, looking up at a larger, angry, looming ...

The essays that follow, on the current state of macroeconomic analysis, were motivated by at least two developments. First, consider the question posed by Queen Elizabeth, who, on visiting the London ...

The Editors of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas are Michael Tomasky (Editor), Jack Meserve (Managing Editor), and Delphine d'Amora (Associate Editor).

It was about five years ago that I began thinking about a special issue of Democracy on the Constitution. I was frustrated with the Electoral College and the Senate even then, which led me to do some ...

In his second term, President Trump has rejected the long-held tradition of regulatory independence by firing or attempting to fire officials at agencies charged with setting monetary policy, ensuring ...

The New Conservatives: Restoring America’s Commitment to Family, Community, and Industry edited by Oren Cass • Radius Book Group • 2025 • 320 pages • $32.50 In evaluating their policy agenda, I think ...