Monetary Policy as if Democracy Matters, Downey asks us to consider how Congress might channel the will of the people to make ...

Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy by Katherine Stewart • Bloomsbury Publishing • 2025 • 352 pages • $30 In ...

Unrepresentative political parties certainly haven’t helped our democracy. But can rebuilding parties save it?

The Empire State Building, then the world’s tallest building at 102 stories, was completed in 1931. Building that majestic structure, later called one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World by the ...

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Roosevelt’s eight Supreme Court justices helped pen some of the Court’s best decisions—and some of its worst.

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There was some debate after the election last year about whether it was, or was not, a “wipeout.” I argue that regardless of whether it was or wasn’t, Democrats must behave as if it was. If the party ...

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