The Framers’ Constitution - Democracy Journal
The Framers of the American Constitution were visionaries. They designed our Constitution to endure. They sought not only to address the specific challenges facing the nation during their lifetimes, but to establish the foundational principles that would sustain and guide the new nation into an uncertain future.
The Future Of Democracy
Anja Manuel is a former diplomat, author, and advisor on emerging markets, and is also Co-Founder and Principal in Rice, Hadley, Gates & Manuel LLC, a strategic consulting firm that helps U.S. companies navigate international markets. She is the author of the critically acclaimed This Brave New World: India, China and the United States.. From 2005-2007, she …
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PR and Presidentialism: Yes, We Can : Democracy Journal
A myth haunts conversations about proportional representation in America. It is the belief that proportional representation requires a parliamentary system. We’re here to kill this myth. As comparative political scientists have long known, proportional …
What’s Next for American Democracy? : Democracy Journal
For all these reasons, we believe Americans who yearn to sustain and enhance effective democratic government must be alert to three possible threat scenarios and ways to address them proactively, as well as if the situation deteriorates.The scenarios range from a continuation of current incremental erosions to outright authoritarian takeovers.
What History Teaches Us - Democracy Journal
The People’s Party or Populist Party of the early 1890s marked a departure in American politics. Populism mobilized millions of men and women—farmers and workers, middle class activists and urban reformers—to challenge corporate power. In doing so it …
Mr. Moral Authority : Democracy Journal
By the time Lewis had his skull fractured by Alabama state troopers on March 7, 1965 (“Bloody Sunday”), as he and more than 500 Black Americans attempted to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma to protest violations of Black voting and civil rights, the 25-year-old was already well known among the country’s civil rights leaders.
David Corn - Democracy Journal
Dec 17, 2024 · is the Washington bureau chief of Mother Jones and author of American Psychosis: A Historical Investigation of How the Republican Party Went Crazy. He writes the “Our Land” newsletter.
Trump 2.0: Learning the Hard Lessons : Democracy Journal
Donald Trump won. What now? Here at Democracy, that’s the question that hasn't left our minds since November 6. So we asked some of the smartest thinkers and political analysts we know to examine the different facets of our new reality: Why did …
The Challenge of India’s Democratic Backsliding
Milan Vaishnav is senior fellow and director of the South Asia program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C. He is the author of When Crime Pays: Money and Muscle in Indian Politics (Yale University Press, 2017) and the host of "Grand Tamasha," a weekly podcast on Indian politics and policy.