A Journal of Ideas

Elections

A Coronavirus Treatment for U.S. Democracy

Our democracy can survive this crisis—but we must take three vital steps to ensure that it does.

By Maresa Strano

Immigrant and Refugee Women: Elected Leaders for the New America

By Sayu Bhojwani

A Post-Pandemic Voting Reform Agenda

With primaries as with everything else, we can’t just go back to the way things were.

By Rob Richie David Daley

Personnel Is Policy

The vital importance of appointing people who work—and think—in the public interest.

By Jeff Hauser David Segal

Sometimes, Too Much Is…Too Much

Progressives have a proposal for everything. But as we Australian Laborites learned this year, that can open you up to attack.

By Wayne Swan