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The IRS Slush Fund Is a Test. Too Many Republicans Are Failing It.
The coming reckoning that Congress needs to think about.
 • Maria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno
Harvard and the Nation
Sequoia seeds worth the will to believe
 • Aidan Fitzsimons
Soft Bodies, Hard Cars
On hitchhiking, democracy, driving, and cuddle puddles
 • Aidan Fitzsimons
Ordinary People Just Helped Save Millions of Lives.
Congress Showed Some Spine. It Happened Because Citizens Took Action.
 • Sam Daley-Harris
A Parchment and a Promise
On the rules that bind us — and how we remake them
 • Adam Harper
Mamdani's Bold Experiment in Participatory Democracy
NYC's mayor seems to be trying to achieve what Barack Obama never could: turning his campaign movement into a de facto arm of his government
 • Gideon Lichfield
Democratic Divinity
Perhaps the most important image in American literature
 • Aidan Fitzsimons
The Unitary Executive Is About to Get Turbo-Charged
The Supreme Court appears headed toward a ruling that goes most of the way to a full-blown unitary-executive regime.
 • Harry Litman
On Marjorie Taylor Greene's Apology
Sometimes an apology matters less for what it reveals about the speaker than for what it asks of us.
 • Adam Harper
The Past Waits for the Future in Gettysburg
272 words at Gettysburg changed the meaning of what the dead had done. I walked those fields with Navy SEALs to learn what the ground still had to…
 • Michael Gibson
The Meta-Meme of the New World
On Nihilism and the Aura of Agency
 • Aidan Fitzsimons
Introducing the Radical Duke
Democracy Renovators across the ages, unite!
 • Danielle Allen
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