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At a recent congressional hearing on “the Chinese Communist Party’s political warfare,” U.S. House Representative Jasmine ...

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Would Kamala Harris’s foreign policy depart from Biden’s? Clues from the work of her national security advisor, Philip Gordon. Harris has her own views about a range of foreign policy issues—including ...

Andreas Eshete, who died last week at age seventy-nine, was one of the greatest minds of Ethiopia’s finest generation of thinkers. A child of the revolutionary movement, he was a reflective political ...

Single-member districts are the real issue. Political competition is a function of electoral rules. Just as a duopolistic market does not come about by chance, a party system confined to only two ...

Drutman is partly right: the “two-party doom loop” threatens American democracy and structural reform is needed. But his framework can’t explain how authoritarian movements have seized governing power ...

White Poverty: How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy Reverend Dr. William J. Barber II with Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove Liveright, $22.99 (cloth) White Rural Rage: ...

Elections have become nearly synonymous with democracy. We invest so much hope, energy, and money in elections and keep ending up with out-of-touch politicians, legislative gridlock, and violent ...

Drutman can’t possibly be right that the two-party system is “the whole ballgame.” The hyperpartisanship and dysfunctional politics that concerns him is happening not just in countries with two-party ...