Winter 2023, No. 67

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Features

Saving Democracy

How to address the “great misalignment” between self-government and human frailty.

By Isabel Sawhill

30 MIN READ

Lessons for the Next Resistance

Veterans of the EPA knew it would face unprecedented attacks under Donald Trump. We banded together and did something about it.

By Ruth Greenspan Bell

28 MIN READ

The New New Social Conservatives

The rising breed of religious rightists don’t have much use for two things. One is neoliberal economics. The other is democracy.  

By Julie Kohler

30 MIN READ

The Future of Gun Reform

By Jennifer Mascia Greg Jackson Jr. Po Murray Igor Volsky Garen Wintemute

33 MIN READ

Rethinking Arthur Burns, the “Worst” Fed Chair in History

An inflation-fighting strategy for today might come from the most unlikely of sources.

By Chris Hughes

30 MIN READ

Book Reviews

The Lure of Antipolitics

The danger for our democracy lies in substituting unaccountable powers for democratically authorized ones.

By Nathan Pippenger

14 MIN READ

Taming the Economy

The story of fiscal and monetary policy over the last 60 years is the story of what government can and should do to the economy.

By James Surowiecki

12 MIN READ

A Woman's Place Is in the Courtroom

By Katha Pollitt

10 MIN READ

Recounting

What We Can Learn From Ukraine

There is power in defining what it means to love your country.

By Delphine d'Amora

9 MIN READ

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