DHS was created with a civil rights office to prevent the abuses we’re seeing now. Funny thing—Trump shut it down.

Gerrymandering is not a new problem in the United States. Even the founding generation was not immune to its temptations: Patrick Henry famously attempted to have Virginia’s very first congressional ...

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The Empire State Building, then the world’s tallest building at 102 stories, was completed in 1931. Building that majestic structure, later called one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World by the ...

In the spring of 2022, Americans checking out at grocery stores and gas pumps across the nation faced a stark reality: Their dollars were rapidly losing value. As inflation surged above 8 percent—a ...

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

Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy by Katherine Stewart • Bloomsbury Publishing • 2025 • 352 pages • $30 In 1964, when I was seven years old, my family took a day ...

The pitchforks are out. The question is: Whose heads belong on the forks? One reason for the intense anger and thirst for revanchism in our society may be the sustained growth of economic inequality ...

There was some debate after the election last year about whether it was, or was not, a “wipeout.” I argue that regardless of whether it was or wasn’t, Democrats must behave as if it was. If the party ...

Like so many others, I knocked on a lot of doors this fall—each day my worry growing that the Democrats might come up short. In a trailer park in southern Pennsylvania, two white women seethed about ...

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 ...

The Democratic Party is often described as a “big tent,” a coalition bound by the principle of inclusion. That tent today includes everyone from the Squad to Never Trump ex-Republicans, small farmers ...