The Terrifying Inadequacy of American Election Law
The country has narrowly averted catastrophic deadlocks over the presidential-election outcome before. We may not be so fortunate in 2020.
The country has narrowly averted catastrophic deadlocks over the presidential-election outcome before. We may not be so fortunate in 2020.
If the country’s institutions cannot function effectively during a crisis, and especially if a view takes hold that authoritarian regimes are managing the crisis more decisively, a grim future lies ahead.
The country is perfecting a vast network of digital espionage as a means of social control—with implications for democracies worldwide.
Kim Jong Un’s nuclear and missile programs represent one of the most dangerous challenges since the end of the Cold War. But there are opportunities to stop them.
The notion that one form of prejudice can defeat another is an illusion.
No foreign power has ever intervened to try to shape a U.S. election with this kind of sophistication and potency.
How Vladimir Putin is making the world safe for autocracy
Democracy is facing setbacks around the world, but there hasn't been reason to doubt America's resilience—until now.
The United States has been at war with ISIS for more than a year. But you cannot beat a surging ideology without a higher sense of purpose.
Including a third-party candidate would reinvigorate American democracy.