Democracy Archives

Democracy

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,

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…

Machine Politics

by Fred Turner,

The rise of the internet and a new age of authoritarianism

Donald Trump Is a Good President

by Michel Houellebecq,Translated by John Cullen,

One foreigner’s perspective

Tyranny of the Minority

by Rebecca Solnit,

Think of our democracy as a house we built in 1776, big enough only for Christian, property-owning white men. Over the next two centuries, various groups struggled to make it…