Tuesday, July 30, 2024Alexander Vindman: Stop Giving Demagogues Permission Slips
American democracy relies on nonpartisan civil servants to detect and combat corruption. Alexander Vindman was one such civil servant when he reported...
Tuesday, July 16, 2024Neal Katyal: SCOTUS Is Delegitimizing Itself
The Supreme Court does not belong in the crosshairs of the American political debate. Neal Katyal discusses how the court’s rush to decide social cont...
Tuesday, July 2, 2024Alan Jenkins & Gan Golan: Reimagining Democracy Through Art
What if the January 6 attack on the US Capitol had been successful? Alan Jenkins and Gan Golan explore just that in their graphic novel series, entitl...
Tuesday, June 18, 2024Kelley Robinson: Defending LGBTQ+ Rights Is Defending Democracy
The Human Rights Campaign declared a state of emergency for LGBTQ+ Americans for the first time in 2023. In state houses across the country, we are se...
Tuesday, June 4, 2024Katherine Gehl: Elections Are Broken. How Do We Fix Them?
American voters have never been more dissatisfied. Unlike in business, where more competition promotes accountability and innovation, our political sy...
Tuesday, May 21, 2024Matthew Delmont: Brown v. Board—What It Achieved and Where It Fell Short
In commemoration of the 70th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education (1954), Matthew Delmont discusses the symbolic and practical significance of t...
Tuesday, May 7, 2024Martha S. Jones: History Tells Us Who We Have Been and Who We Aspire to Be
Citizenship is a perpetual debate in America. Martha S. Jones discusses how the exclusion of women and people of color from the early Republic led the...
Tuesday, April 23, 2024Justin Gest: America is Hopelessly Diverse—In the Best Way Possible
In 2015, the US Census Bureau released a report projecting that the US would become a majority minority nation by 2044. Justin Gest asserts that the U...
Tuesday, April 9, 2024David Pepper: The Heart of the Attack on Democracy Happens in States
American democracy is under attack, and much of the damage is done in statehouses. David Pepper explains how Americans’ hyper-fixation on national pol...
Tuesday, March 26, 2024Maureen O'Connor: Citizens Can End Gerrymandering
A devoted public servant, Maureen O’Connor discusses the importance of efficiency, fairness, and nonpartisanship in government. After years of witness...
Tuesday, March 12, 2024Kimberlé Crenshaw: What is Critical Race Theory, Anyway?
Throughout history, the rules and practices of American democracy have contradicted the nation’s democratic ideals. Kimberlé Crenshaw has dedicated he...
Tuesday, February 27, 2024J. Michael Luttig: We Haven’t Learned Anything from January 6th—Yet.
J. Michael Luttig was one of the earliest, and most prominent, conservative voices to publicly condemn the effort to overturn the 2020 election. A few...
