Haitian migrants have been subjected to decades of brutal mistreatment by the U.S. government, much of which unfolded at ...

China’s National Day, president Xi Jinping will have much to celebrate. The country looks starkly different from the war-torn ...

Democracy depends on the free exchange of ideas. Help sustain it with a tax-deductible donation today. Discounting the Future ...

Worries about the twilight of American hegemony and China’s rise are producing a new consensus in Washington. At a recent congressional hearing on “the Chinese Communist Party’s political warfare,” ...

American democracy is broken, but partisanship alone is not to blame. Political scientist Lee Drutman places our two-party system instead at the center of the American democratic crisis. Of course, ...

White Poverty: How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy Reverend Dr. William J. Barber II with Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove Liveright, $22.99 (cloth) White Rural Rage: ...

Andreas Eshete, who died last week at age seventy-nine, was one of the greatest minds of Ethiopia’s finest generation of thinkers. A child of the revolutionary movement, he was a reflective political ...

Elections have become nearly synonymous with democracy. We invest so much hope, energy, and money in elections and keep ending up with out-of-touch politicians, legislative gridlock, and violent ...

Single-member districts are the real issue. Political competition is a function of electoral rules. Just as a duopolistic market does not come about by chance, a party system confined to only two ...

Power Lines: Building a Labor–Climate Justice Movement Edited by Jeff Ordower and Lindsay Zafir New Press, $17.99 (paper) If any two movements should work closely together, it should be the labor and ...