Fernando Morais’s Lula, a new biography of Brazil’s current third-term president, describes the tension on the morning of ...

Its potential to enhance civic engagement crucially depends on what policymakers want to learn from the public.

It means fighting for the social wage, not just higher pay and better working conditions but a reinvestment in public ...

Generative AI tools, released by a handful of powerful tech companies, are remaking the economy, society, and human life as ...

Unions turned out for Harris, but Democrats can no longer expect them to deliver working-class voters.

From 2016 to 2020 Donald J. Trump served as forty-fifth president of the United States; now, he has secured his reelection and will assume office once again as president number forty-seven. It was ...

Benjamin Schlesinger is a national union staff member who worked on turnout and persuasion efforts across the country during the 2024 campaign.

Help Us Stay Paywall-Free Democracy depends on the free exchange of ideas. Help sustain it with a tax-deductible donation today.

My grandmother was a good Catholic who didn’t go to college and had eight children. Her oldest child went to college and had one child, me. Your own family probably fits this pattern. In a decline ...

On a state visit to Japan in May 2016, Barack Obama delivered a speech in Hiroshima that won immediate praise from Terumi Tanaka, at the time the secretary general of Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese ...