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Democracy & Government
  • Democracy & Government
    Donald Trump’s Dark and Scary Night
    July 22, 2016
    | Bill Moyers and Michael Winship
    The GOP presidential nominee's acceptance speech was a litany of fear and resentment, a dog whistle to disaffected white Americans.
  • Democracy & Government
    Don't Count on Congress to Rein In a President Trump
    July 21, 2016
    | Lori Cox Han
    "There is nothing to stop a president from initiating action, even if unconstitutional," one scholar observes.
  • Money & Politics
    Disappointed By the Democratic Party Platform? Follow the Money
    July 21, 2016
    | Branko Marcetic
    Several delegates to the platform drafting committee have deep financial ties to conservative industries.
  • Civil Liberties
    A New Civil Rights Movement Can Build on Old Lessons
    July 20, 2016
    | Marshall Ganz
    Creating change requires understanding the power you have, and building a movement goes beyond protests.
  • Democracy & Government
    The Get-Off-My-Lawn Party Meets in Cleveland
    July 20, 2016
    | Michael Winship
    Their convention is a negative roundelay of attacks without solutions and crankiness without hope.
  • Democracy & Government
    What's on Display in Cleveland? The Republican Id
    July 20, 2016
    | Eric Alterman
    The triumph of Trump has demonstrated the cost of the devil’s bargain that party elites — and the media — have accepted over the years.
  • Society
    How the Right Tears Down America
    July 20, 2016
    | Mike Lofgren
    America surely has problems, but the Republican Right tends to ignore its role in causing them and now — under President Obama — exaggerates how bad the situation is.
  • History
    How to Make a Political Revolution
    July 19, 2016
    | David Morris
    Bernie Sanders' supporters can learn a lesson from another populist revolution a century in the making.
  • Democracy & Government
    Ohio Is Purging Tens of Thousands of Democratic Voters
    July 19, 2016
    | Ari Berman
    Democrats are twice as likely as Republicans to be purged from the voter rolls in the state’s largest counties.
  • Democracy & Government
    What Donald Trump and the Republican Party Could Learn From Cleveland
    July 18, 2016
    | Sean Posey
    The convention city is a mirror of the nation's uncertain and inequitable economy.


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