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Kounalakis, the Monthly's publisher and president emeritus, is California’s Second Gentleman and a Hoover Institution visiting fellow researching democracy and geopolitics. Follow him on Instagram, @markoskounalakis.
More than three decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the promise of a democratic Russia has given way to something much darker—and far more durable.
We can’t seem to accept that terribly gifted people can do terrible things.
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His jabs at the pope probably would matter more if Congressional Republicans and JD Vance weren’t already heading for grim midterms.
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Colleges lobbied to kill a requirement that they use a uniform financial aid offer letter to help families easily compare costs.
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The Supreme Court’s ruling eviscerating Section 2 of the landmark law is only part of its project.
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The Founders designed our democracy with a failsafe against would-be despots: impeachment.
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The Class of 2026 is graduating into a democracy in freefall. Their speakers owe them more than recycled anecdotes.
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His administration had to drop the case to get a new fed chair, but it could be revived amid a flurry of selective prosecutions.
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