The profession confronts a grim question: Are we witnessing the end of the world’s oldest democracy?
Books
More Heart Than Science
Industrialized health care has suppressed the human interaction that forms the ineffable “art” of medicine—while failing to achieve true efficiency.
The Tragedy of Thailand
How a model of democratization became patient zero for the global rise of authoritarianism.
How Southern Plutocrats Betrayed America
The slaveholding oligarchy was defeated in the Civil War. But concentrations of wealth and power continue to threaten our democracy.
Liberal Democracy Is Not the Problem
With authoritarianism on the rise at home and abroad, now is no time to give up on the American experiment.
The Fallacy of the Free Market
Democrats’ vision that our broken economy simply needs to correct for market failures has its limits.
Dear Democrats, Don’t Despair
Even in the age of Donald Trump, at least in some ways, things have never been better.
How the Senate Went off the Rails
Trump’s presidency makes the urgency of repairing the upper chamber all the more apparent.
Take My President … Please!
Comedy’s challenge in the age of Trump.
Mamas, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Babysitters
Gender discrimination in the workplace begins earlier than you think.
Special Report
Successes of Philanthropy
