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Democracy

Analyzing the right’s Second Amendment shell game after the tragic Covenant school shooting

April 3, 2023 • by Claire Potter

How do you square support for gun ownership, virtually without restriction, with this terrible, unjust tragedy?...

Politics

A potential Trump indictment in New York created many problems for the Republican Party leaders

March 21, 2023 • by Heather Cox Richardson

Trump's demands for his supporters to rally around him again have produced anemic results......

Podcast

Why Now? With Claire Potter, Episode 15

February 27, 2023 • by Claire Potter

A conversation with historian Christopher Elias about his book, "Gossip Men."...

Democracy

Alexis de Tocqueville on Democracy and Its Culture

The dangers of a new tyranny of a minority in our time

January 30, 2023 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

On the central problems of race, gender and sexuality, and class, Tocqueville is not the best of guides in considering today’s crisis of democracy in America. Nonetheless, I still think that Tocqueville has much to offer in understanding America and the present crisis in our democracy....

Alexis de Tocqueville on Democracy and Its Culture

Economy

How Sanctions Contributed to Venezuela’s Economic Collapse

Despite claims that they targeted the Maduro regime, sanctions had indiscriminate effects on the country

January 17, 2023 • by Francisco Rodríguez

This essay was originally published by The Global Americans and is reprinted with permission During the past decade, Venezuela lived through the largest economic contraction documented in the history of the Western Hemisphere. The implosion took place at the same time as the U.S. government barred oil purchases, froze government bank ...

How Sanctions Contributed to Venezuela’s Economic Collapse

Politics

If Republicans Can’t Elect a Speaker, What Else Can’t They Do?

Kevin McCarthy’s epic fail reveals Nancy Pelosi’s legacy to the Democratic Party

January 10, 2023 • by Claire Potter

Nancy Pelosi’s greatest strength as a liberal was in her mastery of the possible while at the same time accommodating dissenters, idealists, and change-makers to this fact of life. This is what she taught her caucus....

If Republicans Can’t Elect a Speaker, What Else Can’t They Do?

Podcast

Verdi, Dante, and Dahlia Lithwick

December 12, 2022 • by Claire Potter

A conversation with Slate's Supreme Court reporter about her new book, "Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America"...

Past Present

Antisemitism’s Resurgence

Past Present Podcast, Episode 353

December 6, 2022 • by Nicole Hemmer, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela and Neil J. Young

In this episode, Niki, Neil, and Natalia discuss the resurgence of antisemitism in the United States. ...

Past Present

The 2022 Midterm Elections

Past Present Podcast, Episode 351

November 15, 2022 • by Nicole Hemmer, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela and Neil J. Young

In this episode, Neil, Niki, and Natalia discuss the results of the 2022 midterm elections....

Social Research

What, If Anything, Do Populism and Conspiracy Theories Have to Do with Each Other?

Why “powerless” populists suggest conspiracy

November 15, 2022 • by Jan-Werner Müller

The following is an excerpt from an essay first published in Social Research: An International Quarterly. It is part of the journal’s issue Conspiracy Thinking. Populist parties that do not do well at the polls have to face an obvious contradiction: How can it be that the populists are the people’s only morally ...

<strong>What, If Anything, Do Populism and Conspiracy Theories Have to Do with Each Other?</strong>

Social Research

The Path from Conspiracy to Ungoverning

Delegitimating democratic foundations

November 14, 2022 • by Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum

Conspiracism, in sum, attacks the legitimacy of the two foundations that make democracy work: knowledge-producing institutions and regulated political rivalry. Because these are the very institutions that bring pluralism into political life, they must be delegitimated by those who claim to own reality and brook no contradiction. ...