A Journal of Ideas

  • Voices of the Virus

The Looming Eviction Crisis

Housing expert and best-selling author Matthew Desmond tells Democracy what’s coming. It isn’t pretty.

By Matthew Desmond

The Pandemic's Mental Health Crisis

While the physical ravages of the virus are well known, millions more are suffering in silence from a worsening crisis in mental health and a system that offers little comfort.

By Shekhar Saxena

Our Health Care Is 'Market Chaos'

Harvard pulmonary care specialist Adam Gaffney explains how COVID makes the case for radical health-care changes.

By Adam Gaffney

'The Enlightenment Matters'

Historian Heather Cox Richardson on governing by reality vs. governing by ideology.

By Heather Cox Richardson

Even More Deaths of Despair?

The co-author of an important new book talks about her research, the current crisis, and whether we can turn it into an opportunity.

By Anne Case