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

Industrial policy has traditionally been conceived of as a strategic tool that nations use to gain “market share” in the context of international trade. Over the last five decades or so, the focus of ...

Eleanor Roosevelt: The War Years and After; Volume Three, 1939-1962 by Blanche Wiesen Cook • Viking • 2016 • 688 pages • $40 Her biographer calls her the “most controversial First Lady in United ...

At the start of this school year, a picture of two young girls sitting outside a Taco Bell swept across the Internet. They were not headed to the restaurant for lunch. Instead, they were seen ...

The Court at War: FDR, His Justices, and the World They Made by Cliff Sloan • PublicAffairs • 2023 • 512 pages • $32.50 The years of World War II represent the most paradoxical era in the history of ...

Two days before the election, a Trump car caravan collided with Biden supporters and social justice advocates in front of the now graffiti-covered statue of Robert E. Lee in Richmond, Virginia.

Experiments across the world have tried to remove politicians themselves from decision-making. And they’ve worked—well, kind ...

Job disruption as a result of automation and new technologies accelerated dramatically during the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result, it is clearer than ever that we need to examine how forward-thinking ...

In early 2018, Larry Kramer, the dean of Stanford Law School and the president of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, which held assets of about $10 billion and disbursed around $400 million a ...

Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America By Beth Macy • Little, Brown and Company • 2018 • 384 pages • $28 All tragedies have heroes. Obvious heroes, complicated heroes, ...

On the day I sat down to write this review, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan. “We see you as a trusted partner in matters of assuring ...