When Tom Hayden started working on the Port Huron Statement, he had already been beaten in Mississippi, protested at the Democratic National Convention, met Robert Kennedy, interviewed Martin Luther ...

We should not at all underestimate the pressure and the constraints, the harassments and surveillance which go on and have ...

What can technology do for feminism? Almost fifty years ago, Shulamith Firestone imagined it could liberate women from the work of reproduction—so long as it was conceived as part of a cultural ...

In August 1936, after a failed coup against the Second Spanish Republic, Francisco Franco’s Nationalist forces seized the city of Badajoz in the western region of Extremadura. The siege was swift, ...

In their new book, Abundance, Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson argue that American liberals have ironically succumbed to a conservative worldview, in the original sense of “conservative.” Instead of ...

I am grateful for these provocative and engaging responses. Start with the elephant in the room: Is this the right moment to critique our system of checks and balances, after a near-majority of voters ...

As most of the federal government has declined to “check” the Trump administration over the past three months, a new imbalance has been established—one that favors the autocratic rule of a ...

The hallowed story Americans like to tell about our constitutional order gets it precisely backward—on that, Lisa Miller is utterly convincing. Rather than empowering democracy, our system obstructs ...

The Democratic Party’s decision to double down on checks and balances as the best response to the Trump administration is only the latest reflection of its paucity of political vision. Both Joe Biden ...

Lisa Miller clearly comes to condemn Trump, not to praise him. Yet her polemic captures a common justification of his administration’s violent, cruel, and authoritarian ethnonationalism. This striking ...