Marc F. Plattner is the founding coeditor of the Journal of Democracy and the author of Democracy Without Borders?: Global Challenges to Liberal Democracy.
With authoritarianism on the rise at home and abroad, now is no time to give up on the American experiment.
New polling shows not so much ideological division among Democrats but a lack of consensus about where the party should go.
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“Hamilton” aside, America’s first colleges like Harvard, Yale, and William & Mary bred more faithful subjects of the crown than revolutionaries.
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The late great representative’s near political end in a sex scandal is a reminder of why Congress should pause before forcing members to resign.
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My wife, Emily Lazar, worked at both The Colbert Report and The Late Show and she helps me look under the hood.
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AI companies want to monetize what makes us human. Who will stop them?
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Long before the Southern Poverty Law Center, non-government organizations ran undercover operations against American fascists.
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Nick Hanauer and Eric Beinhocker have a plan for fixing capitalism: “market humanism.”
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