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 ...

Far from safeguarding democracy, America’s system of government helped create this authoritarian moment—and only mass ...

Miller warns that liberal hopes in such checks and balances are misplaced. Far from a safeguard of democracy, she argues, ...

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 ...

The system is not functioning well—Lisa Miller is right about that. She insightfully dissects the limits of our traditional understanding of checks and balances, showing why a major national movement ...

As we struggle to answer his policies with progressive alternatives, the history of popular economic nationalism and its often-racist politics offers a powerful warning. The answer, though, isn’t a ...

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 ...

Francis challenged the ethnonationalism of the U.S. Catholic right. With the election of Leo XIV, the battle lines are being ...

This essay is featured in our Spring 2025 issue. Subscribe to get a copy. Over the last year and a half, American universities have rapidly destroyed the right to protest on campus. At the request of ...