A Journal of Ideas

Summer 2024, No. 73

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Symposium

Revitalizing Political Leadership

By The Editors

1 MIN READ

Leading to Govern

By Daniel Stid

13 MIN READ

Politics: An Honorable Profession

By Debbie Cox Bultan

13 MIN READ

Their Generation: The Promise of Younger Elected Officials

By Layla Zaidane

14 MIN READ

The Vital Center: Learning from the Extremes

By Lauren Harper Pope Liam Kerr

15 MIN READ

Values-Driven Republicans: They Might Surprise You

By Sarah Hunt

8 MIN READ

The “Servant Leader”: Adopting the “We Mindset”

By Emily Cherniack

10 MIN READ

Legislative Effectiveness: The Elements of Success

By Craig Volden Alan E. Wiseman

11 MIN READ

Oversight: The Key to Restoring Public Confidence

By Jim Townsend

12 MIN READ

Features

The Most Dangerous Law in America

The Insurrection Act is a nuclear bomb hidden in the United States code, giving presidents unimaginable emergency power. No President has abused it. Yet.

By Joseph Nunn

27 MIN READ

Book Reviews

The Immigration Gordian Knot

Immigration outcomes are often portrayed as a product of U.S. policy and will. The real story is more complicated—and more tragic.

By Dara Lind

14 MIN READ

Markets and the Law

Neoliberalism isn’t just a set of economic precepts—it’s also an architecture of laws passed to reinforce those precepts. Those laws must be changed.

By Amy Kapczynski

13 MIN READ

Party People

Many recoil at the thought of stronger political parties. But revitalized parties could be exactly what our ailing democracy needs.

By John Sides

11 MIN READ

Taxed for Being Black

The long arc of racist plunder through local tax codes is shocking—or, well, maybe it’s not, really.

By Victor Ray

11 MIN READ

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