By Campaign Legal Center Transparency in elections is vital to ensuring that voters know who is spending money to influence their vote. Yet wealthy special interests undermine transparency through secret spending groups (sometimes called “dark…
What would it look like in a state legislature? By Protect Democracy Proportionally elected legislatures could yield more competitive, representative, accountable, and authoritarian-resistant state politics. Reform efforts in the United States are often successfully piloted…
Don’t just soothe the profit motive. Kill it. By Hamilton Nolan You don’t get a bill when a fire truck comes to your house. You do get a bill when an ambulance comes to your…
It’s not just our tax dollars they’re after, it’s our children. Commentary by Dennis Kucinich The coming wars are not patriotic. They are the result of the abject failure of political leadership and a long…
By Senator Rand Paul Secretary of State Antony Blinken recently testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee where he tried, and failed, to sell the Biden administration’s spin that it is delivering for the American…
An interview with Sevim Dağdelen By Natalia Marques In July, the United States hosted the 75th NATO Summit in Washington, DC. Although a prominent topic on the agenda was “defense and deterrence,” much of the…
Americans Will Now Know What a Lack of Accountability Means By Oona A. Hathaway The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on former President Donald Trump’s claims of criminal immunity has provoked grave warnings about a new…
How Communities are Making Political Violence Backfire By Maria J. Stephan Historically, organized collective action has been the strongest bulwark against authoritarianism and the political violence that greases its wheels, as my own research and…
Journalism Should Cover It That Way By Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope The press is covering the 2024 campaign as if climate isn’t on the ballot, but 56 percent of US voters are ‘concerned’ or…
And They’re Coming for Your Home Commentary by Cory Doctorow One of my weirder and more rewarding hobbies is collecting definitions of “conservativism,” and one of the jewels of that collection comes from Corey Robin’s…