The way to a stronger democracy starts with reforming our massive criminal justice system.

Fixing gerrymandering isn’t enough to build an equitable, multiracial society. We need dialogue.

Alas, we can’t fix this democracy without amending the U.S. Constitution. The process for that is almost impossible.

Amid the threats of climate change and civil war, the “solidarity dividend” benefits everyone.

How many rich moderates would join the MAGA far right if redistribution policies threatened their wealth?

Structural reforms like ranked-choice voting could take decades. The right leader could expedite the process and save the republic in the meantime.

A second conversation with Niccolò Machiavelli

We asked 12 writers for their predictions—and recommendations for how to save democracy.

Responsive organizing is essential to achieving policy reform.

Czechoslovakia’s “Velvet Divorce” offers a model for dealing with America’s irreconcilable differences.

For 26 years, Eliot wrote intense, passionate letters to Emily Hale. Should they change the way we read his poetry?

The Passenger is an unusually loose, warm novel—full of theories and anecdotes, memories and stories.

How election deniers, covid skeptics, and a Thomas Jefferson impersonator are disrupting the upstate New York retreat for the elites.

How Americans lost faith in the possibility of self-government

Our civil legal system is stacked against poor and middle-class people. Has Utah figured out the solution?

After Democrats’ success in the midterms, Biden keeps defying the chattering class of pundits and proving politically savvy.

Nikyatu Jusu’s portrait of a nanny’s breakdown fuses horror and social realism.

The Simpsons character and the guy ruining Twitter often sound a lot alike.