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Democracy's Death Knell?

Europe has been the ground zero of democracy’s triumph. But will it be short-lived?

Summer 2019, No. 53 – 13 MIN READ

The Taxman Cometh

Name a country where high tax rates on the rich didn’t discourage growth. How about the United States of America?

By Michael Tomasky

Spring 2019, No. 52 – 9 MIN READ

Machine Men

The on-again, off-again, and finally on-again relationship of Tammany Hall’s most famous twentieth-century alumni.

Fall 2018, No. 50 – 11 MIN READ

Are the Parties Dying?

By Christopher Caldwell David Karol Michael Kazin Frances Lee

Spring 2018, No. 48 – 43 MIN READ

Conservative Defenses of the GOP's Tax Bill Are Getting Creative

Some thoughts on penmanship and partisanship, in the 18th century and now.

By Nathan Pippenger

December 5, 2017, 3:58 pm – 4 MIN READ