Charleroi, a little town of about 4,000 in the heart of western Pennsylvania’s Monongahela Valley, lost not one but three ...

When a faulty door plug explosively blew out the side of Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 three miles above Portland, Oregon, back in January, leading to the massive recent corporate shakeup at the company ...

The Supreme Court is leading the conservative assault on federal administrative agencies—an important, if often hidden, aspect of the American government—in plain sight. Within the last 12 months ...

Vice President Joe Biden is fond of a stump speech line that implores his opponents not to profess lofty values without showing their budgets. Budget priorities, Biden argues, reveal whether or not ...

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

Americans were more divided than ever in 2021, but everyone in the country still agreed on one thing: The Democratic Party has a messaging problem. The problem partly reflects the Democratic Party’s ...

A year ago at this time we were all flying high, eagerly preparing to meet the challenges of “the middle-out moment.” Then came November’s brutal election. But while our spirits may have crashed, the ...

It is 2024, and somehow we act as though the pandemic changed nothing. We pretend that 2024 is just a worse version of politics as usual. The same political parties and the same policy fights, but ...

We appreciate the response from Matt Stoller and David Dayen in defense of deliverism. And we agree with them that delivering for people is a good thing, that Democrats have not delivered enough for a ...

With the news last week that the Biden Administration’s historic paid leave proposals have been stripped from the reconciliation package, pressure is on the Administration to use other avenues to ...

Proposals for constitutional reform are afoot in ways that I have not seen in my lifetime. All of this activity reflects a fear: the age of Trump, with its relentless populist assault, and its rule-by ...

The Words That Made Us: America’s Constitutional Conversation—1760-1840 By Akhil Amar • Basic Books • 2021 • 832 pages • $40 Ben Franklin famously told a questioner as he left Philadelphia’s ...