The murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis in 2020 spurred a “racial reckoning”: a surge of interest not only in reforming policing, but also in challenging us to understand the role of race in our ...

The Editors of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas are Michael Tomasky (Editor), Jack Meserve (Managing Editor), and Delphine d'Amora (Associate Editor).

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Our FOIA system was once the world’s gold standard. Here’s how it became sclerotic—and what we need to do to fix it.

Foreign Agents: How American Lobbyists and Lawmakers Threaten Democracy Around the World by Casey Michel • St. Martin’s Press • 2024 • 368 pages • $30 When I came to Washington, D.C. as a reporter in ...

To most of the media, the Tea Party and the Resistance were mirror images of each other. Wrong. The differences are far more illuminating.

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