
The Real Threat to American Democracy
Jan 5, 2022 thinks hand-wringing over January 6 – and the electoral issues surrounding it – misses the bigger picture.
Michael Lind, Professor of Practice at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, is the author of The New Class War: Saving Democracy from the Managerial Elite (Portfolio, 2020).
Jan 5, 2022 thinks hand-wringing over January 6 – and the electoral issues surrounding it – misses the bigger picture.
Feb 8, 2021 shows that the former US president is of a well-established type that is more corrupt than tyrannical.
Jan 18, 2021 argues that a disease of representative democracy can be treated only by making democracy more representative.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February has stoked fears that Chinese President Xi Jinping is plotting his own aggression against Taiwan. The United States and its NATO allies seem to be “all in” on repelling Russia’s invasion, but how far will the US be willing to go to defend Taiwan, and has its longstanding policy of “strategic ambiguity” on that question really run its course?