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.

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.

Politicians and pundits across the political spectrum warn of a return to the decade of stagflation, urban decay, and labor mutiny. Their solution? The failed policies of the 1970s.

Over the last half-century, economics has infiltrated parts of the federal government where it has no business intruding. It can be a useful tool for policymaking, but it’s become the only tool. It’s time for economics to back the hell off.

How John Roberts lost control of the Supreme Court

A new isolationist strain is gaining dominance in the GOP. The noninterventionist part is fine. But then there’s the admiration for Putin, the hatred of alliances, the hostility to NATO ...

The city is the first in the country to pass, and begin to implement, a reparations program. Changing laws to undo discrimination is one thing. But will white citizens really be willing to pay for it?

This spring, a virulent strain of bird flu ripped through U.S. farms. The public hardly noticed. That we could ignore the disease shows just how little we’ve learned about the origin of new viruses.

Republicans have been running circles around Democrats for decades. But finally the right has handed them a potent weapon. Will they recognize it and use it?

For their policies to succeed, Democrats need to tie their economic ideas to the broader ideals all Americans are taught to cherish.

The Buckeye State has grown redder and redder. The Democratic congressman could reverse that—and start to revive the Democrats’ working-class identity.

Young voters are utterly disillusioned. The question is whether president can turn that around by November.

Back in Minnesota, Emmer made his name as a fringe firebrand. Now head of the NRCC, he’s learned to mute his rhetoric—mostly—and is quietly climbing the ladder of House Republican leadership.

Democrats everywhere ran on climate in 2020. Now they’re practically running away from it.

The stakes are highest in states where the legislature and the governor’s mansion are held by different parties. How much will abortion rights motivate voters?