A Fractured Coalition
A roundtable on the 2024 election.
Winter 2025
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Know Your Enemy: Realignments, with Timothy Shenk
Timothy Shenk discusses Realigners—“a biography of American democracy told through its majorities, and the people who made them.”
Lessons for Courtiers
The results of the 2020 Democratic primaries suggest the limits of a left strategy for power starting at, rather than building toward, the presidency.
Racial Metaphors
If colorblindness rests on the claim that the civil rights movement changed everything, the idea that racism is in our DNA borders on a fatalistic proposition that it changed little or nothing.
The “Make Me Do It” Myth
Politicians fear the disruptive power of a mobilized base, even when it helps them succeed.
What Obama Wants to Forget
A Promised Land is Obama’s attempt to frame the discussion around his presidency. It’s most revealing where it departs from earlier accounts offered by his chief aides and his own previous memoirs.
A New Direction for U.S. Foreign Policy in Africa
If Democrats win the U.S. election, it is time for a progressive reset in relations with Africa: a new foreign policy, centered on economic justice and the democratic aspirations of the continent’s youth.
Why We Left the Right
A group of ex-conservatives explores how they were drawn to the left, and where they think we’re headed now.
The Once and Future Right
The beneficiaries of existing social and economic hierarchies will always fight to maintain them against egalitarian movements for change.
Introducing our Spring 2020 special section, “Know Your Enemy.”
The Obamanauts
What is the defining achievement of Barack Obama?
Beyond the Backlash
How the 2016 election revealed the possibilities for new political identities.
Graceland
Marilynne Robinson’s latest essay collection What Are We Doing Here? reveals the limits of her restrained metaphysics.
Which Way for Cuba?
As the country prepares for a historic presidential succession, ending the Castros’ nearly sixty-year grip on the highest office, inequality is growing and ordinary Cubans are increasingly disaffected. A report from Havana.
Why Obamacare Repeal Won’t Die
The zombie-like resilience of GOP efforts to repeal-and-replace Obamacare would be the stuff of a Hollywood epic—were it not so devastating to millions of Americans.
Who Killed Obamacare?
Why did the ACA—the first substantial expansion of the U.S. welfare state in nearly half a century—fail to win over the constituency it deserved?
