The United States stands out among Western democracies for its extreme partisan political polarization. It has reached the level of “pernicious polarization,” by which I mean a division of society ...

It was about five years ago that I began thinking about a special issue of Democracy on the Constitution. I was frustrated with the Electoral College and the Senate even then, which led me to do some ...

The authoritarian threat won’t recede until the world’s democracies—the United States most of all—show the world that they uphold democratic norms and deliver for their people.

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