New political science research suggests democracy can survive leaders like Trump. But there’s a catch. The president of the ...

On the overall costs and benefits of technological revolutions, the printing press helped fuel the religious wars of the 16th ...

Adam Liptak’s article in today’s NYT feature this essay that Caleb Nelson wrote for NYU’s Democracy Project series of 100 essays in 100 days. The title and subtitle of the article are Originalist ...

The Constitution is lauded as the cornerstone of our democracy. But what if it’s the reason we don’t actually have one?

With the start of the Supreme Court Term, the NYU Democracy Project is publishing several essays this week on the Court. The first of these, Enshrine Nine, comes from Ed Whelan, who argues for a ...

Restoring California’s independent districting process following the 2030 census, Prop. 50 also calls on Congress to ...

Impossible is Not So Easy: A Life in Politics” (Bughaw, 2019) and “Retrieving the Past: A Memoir” (Bughaw, 2024).

Opposition parties, the judiciary, the press, and civil-society groups aren’t destroyed, but over time they lose their life, ...

Upon the adoption of the Constitution of the United States in 1787, Benjamin Franklin was asked by a woman what kind of ...

The distance between Kathmandu and Washington is vast, but the warning is shared: without credible rules and accountability, ...

Justice Kavanaugh, in a bit of jurisprudence that will age like milk in the sun, suggested that the inconvenience to American ...