Just two years ago, this would have been an extraordinarily radical essay. Its premise is that court-packing—increasing the number of seats on the Supreme Court to change its ideological makeup—is, in ...

The headlines tell the story: “Half of all renters can’t afford the rent.” “Renters, get ready to take it on the chin.” “The rent crisis is about to get a lot worse.” Shaun Donovan, Obama’s first ...

The Editors of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas are Michael Tomasky (Editor), Jack Meserve (Managing Editor), and Delphine d'Amora (Associate Editor).

The name of the Supreme Court case that now poses an existential threat to organized labor seems fitting: Janus v. AFSCME. In ancient Rome, Janus was the god of passages and doorways, endings, and ...

Anyone with a stake in the future of American constitutionalism should be intrigued, indeed fascinated, by the successful outcome of Democracy’s “Rewrite the Constitution” project. Having contributed ...

Over at Commonweal, Matt Mazewski has a thoughtful rejoinder to reporters and pundits surprised to discover that Bernie Sanders has an “immigration problem”—or, to be precise, that he opposes guest ...

One of the bigger fallacies about our criminal justice system is the idea that mandatory minimums make us safer. Maybe you’d ask: Are there a significant number of rogue judges, such that mandatory ...

As she threw open the doors to 46 Amboy Street in Brooklyn’s Brownsville neighborhood on the morning of October 16, 1916, 37-year-old Margaret Sanger must have known she would be arrested again. In ...

To what extent does or should populism exclude certain types of issues and political commitments/alliances, and should the Democratic Party respond to the electoral ...

Though this is not the way I would usually describe my career, one way of looking at it is that I spent my first 20 working years trying to raise money, and the next 15 trying to give it away. The ...

In November 2021, then-Governor Charlie Baker of Massachusetts, a Republican, signed into law new congressional maps that would, as before, give Democrats all nine of the state’s House seats—despite ...

This article draws on some ideas developed further in Practical Radicals: Seven Strategies to Change the World by Deepak Bhargava and Stephanie Luce (New Press, November 2023). How could it be that ...