This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. A few months ago, a high school English teacher in Los Angeles Unified noticed something different about his students’ ...

Gary Roth reviews Eric Leif Davin's "Crucible of Freedom: Workers' Democracy in the Industrial Heartland, 1914–1960" in Insurgent Notes #7.

Politicians get blamed for government shutdowns. But does the fault lie also with citizens, who are more invested in punishing partisan rivals than in demanding competent government?

The New Yorker politics writer sat down with Fifteen Minutes to discuss the current media ecosystem, cookbooks, and her time as The Crimson’s managing editor.

The French Revolution, though bloody and traumatic, has long served as a cautionary lesson for would-be kings and dictators ...

Sarah Longwell on the growing voting divide between the sexes, the 2025 elections, and how Donald Trump remade electoral ...

Democracy is getting to be one of those words that, at least in our day-to-day political debates, has become essentially ...

The National Assembly on Wednesday passed the 27th Constitutional Amendment Bill during a ruckus-marred session attended by ...

I’ve been too busy to blog much this past week, either about my own work or the NYU Democracy Project. But here are three essays from last week in the NYU Democracy Project series of 100 essays in 100 ...

Netanyahu gearing up walk-back from pledge not to grant safe passage to holed-up Hamas fighters * France raises concern with ...

Ezra Klein and Aaron Retica discuss whether affordability is the Democrats’ winning message, Trump’s politics of cruelty and ...

The Trump administration will fund the food stamp program more than initially planned, thanks to a fact-check on its math.