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

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 ...

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).

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 ...

A s readers of this journal know so well, few eras have been as pivotal for American democracy as the present. After years of petty political strafing, partisan gerrymandering, the bipartisan embrace ...

“We, the people.” It is a very eloquent beginning. But when the document was completed on the seventeenth of September 1787 I was not included in that “We, the people.” I felt somehow for many years ...

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 ...

“I remember the day that they started spraying hog waste on us. It was a Saturday in the mid-1990s . . . . Just as I was thinking to myself that there was no way that he would begin spraying waste so ...

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 ...

The ideological dimension of U.S. geopolitical competition with China has become unmistakable. Not only the United States, but other allies including those in Europe now use terms such as “systemic ...

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).