Practical Archives

Practical

What’s in a Vote?

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

Electoral politics in an ailing democracy

Star Search

by Lisa Rab,

The race to rebuild the Democratic Party

Preaching to The Choir

by Rebecca Solnit,

Once, on a river-rafting trip through the Grand Canyon, I traveled with a charming, good-humored man who happened to run an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. He liked…

W.W.E. the People

by Naomi Klein,

By Naomi Klein, from No Is Not Enough, which was published in June by Haymarket Books. Klein is the author of The Shock Doctrine, among other books.

Texas Is the Future

by Andrew Cockburn,

Can Democrats reconquer the Lone Star State?

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…

Mourning in America

by James Marcus,

A political orator wittily compared our party promises to western roads, which opened stately enough, with planted trees on either side, to tempt the traveller, but soon became narrow and…

Down the Tube

by Andrew Cockburn,

Television, turnout, and the election-industrial complex

Bombast Bursting in Air

by Lewis H. Lapham,

The story, so far, of the 2016 election

Gangs of Karachi

by Matthieu Aikins,

Meet the mobsters who run the show in one of the world’s deadliest cities

The Trouble with Israel

by Bernard Avishai,

Netanyahu takes the country to the brink