Democracy

What’s in a Vote?

By Danielle Allen, Jamelle Bouie, Jason Brennan, Sarah Smarsh, Astra Taylor,

Electoral politics in an ailing democracy

Things to Come

By Kevin Baker,

On March 30, during one of the daily briefings on the COVID-19 outbreak that had so captured the hearts and minds of New Yorkers, Governor Andrew Cuomo uttered a sentence…

Dream State

By Yi-Ling Liu,

The radical imagination of the Hong Kong protest movement

Common Enemy

By Ian Buruma,

The emerging resistance to Chinese Empire

Dream State

Host Harper’s Magazine, Guest Yi-Ling Liu on April 30, 2020

Mask on: pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong return to the streets Read More

Election Bias

By Andrew Cockburn,

The new playbook for voter suppression

Constitution in Crisis

By Donna Edwards, Mary Anne Franks, David Law, Lawrence Lessig, Louis Michael Seidman,

Has America’s founding document become the nation’s undoing?

Machine Politics

By Harper’s Magazine, on January 10, 2019

Rather than creating a more equal society, the internet has given rise to a new age of authoritarianism

The Crisis of Our Constitution

By Kevin Baker,

Lost in this past electoral season, one of the most vicious and frightening in American history, is how shaky the very foundation of our democracy is. Throughout Trump’s deformation of…