Frederick Lippitt Professor of Public Policy at Brown University. A political scientist, he is the author of House of Diggs: The Rise and Fall of America’s Most Consequential Black Congressman, ...

Ohio State University and the author of Saving the Freedom of Information Act.

The women’s movement sought to elevate women to legal equality with men and then to greater power, turned “female problems” ...

The result is an eye-popping deep dive into a particularly slimy corner of the D.C. swamp that often escapes scrutiny.

Life and Death of the American Worker: The Immigrants Taking on America’s Largest Meatpacking Company by Alice Driver • Atria/One Signal Publishers • 2024 • 272 pages • $29 In September 2019, Human ...

Plastic Capitalism: Banks, Credit Cards, and the End of Financial Control by Sean H. Vanatta • Yale University Press • 2024 • 416 pages • $35 Credit cards hold a disproportionately large place in the ...

The murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis in 2020 spurred a “racial reckoning”: a surge of interest not only in reforming policing, but also in challenging us to understand the role of race in our ...

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

For the second time in three national elections, and despite a valiant effort by Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party ...

As the founders knew, the only way to bring about the rupture of democracy is through the very exercise of democracy.