A Journal of Ideas. Arguments Should We Be Saying "President Haley"? It’s very likely that the former South Carolina governor was more popular than Donald Trump or Kamala Harris.

The Framers of the American Constitution were visionaries. They designed our Constitution to endure. They sought not only to address the specific challenges facing the nation during their …

The ongoing period of democratic backsliding in the United States and around the world, characterized by pernicious polarization, declining trust in democratic institutions, and a …

Illustration by Pep Montserrat. WE THE PEOPLE of the United States do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America, in order to form a more perfect Union founded …

In November 2021, then-Governor Charlie Baker of Massachusetts, a Republican, signed into law new congressional maps that would, as before, give Democrats all nine of the state’s House …

In 1955, the political theorist Louis Hartz published his classic The Liberal Tradition in America, which set out an influential framework for thinking about American history.Hartz sought to …

For all these reasons, we believe Americans who yearn to sustain and enhance effective democratic government must be alert to three possible threat scenarios and ways to address …

Elizabeth Economy is Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University (on leave). She previously was C.V. Starr Senior Fellow and Director, Asia Studies at the Council on Foreign …

Jun 27, 2016 · Photo by J. Ross Baughman. The 50 th anniversary of Miranda v. Arizona—it was decided this month in 1966—should be the occasion for realizing that the Court’s approach to …

Apr 30, 2020 · President Roosevelt in the Oval Office addressing the nation during one of his wartime fireside chats, February 23, 1942. In March, President Trump declared himself a …