Senator Harry Reid leans on a stack of documents pertaining to campaign finance reform during a Capitol Hill news conference ...

In 1996, President Clinton campaigned on the promise of putting thousands of new police officers on the street. Looking back, ...

Experiments across the world have tried to remove politicians themselves from decision-making. And they’ve worked—well, kind ...

The United States government has in fact recompensed injured groups in the past. So why won’t it do it for Black Americans?

The health care system in the United States is in crisis. Drastic cuts to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act threaten the ...

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

For several years the opioid crisis has been recognized as a major national catastrophe. Millions of people have become addicted to the new generation of opioid drugs. In many cases, this addiction ...

Industrial policy has traditionally been conceived of as a strategic tool that nations use to gain “market share” in the context of international trade. Over the last five decades or so, the focus of ...

In early 2018, Larry Kramer, the dean of Stanford Law School and the president of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, which held assets of about $10 billion and disbursed around $400 million a ...

We’ve become accustomed, watching the Democratic debates, to hearing the moderators focus on the practicability of candidates’ plans to move to Medicare for All, reform immigration policy, and fight ...

At the start of this school year, a picture of two young girls sitting outside a Taco Bell swept across the Internet. They were not headed to the restaurant for lunch. Instead, they were seen ...