The Founders Never Meant the US to Be a Democracy
For Madison and the other Framers, the danger wasn’t the power of elites but that of the mob.
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Edi Rama Must Go
A luxury resort backed by Jared Kushner has prompted massive protests in Albania, now ongoing for over a month. The project has become a lightning rod for opposition to Prime Minister Edi Rama’s cronyish development model.
Silicon Valley Is on a Lobbying Spree in California
Big Tech has grown enormously due to tactics such as price gouging and anticompetitive mergers and acquisitions. New legislation to address these in California faces a stiff and very well-funded resistance.
The Politics of Mass Deportation
The surge at the border under Joe Biden was a political failure, and one that MAGA weaponized with brutal efficiency. The Left has to offer its own solutions.
The Trouble With The Free Press’s Olivia Reingold
For Olivia Reingold, one of the most prominent and prolific contributors to Bari Weiss’s Free Press, defending Israel seems to be a far greater priority than the facts.
Could Democracy by Lottery Fix a Broken System?
Elections keep handing power to elites. Anand Gopal and Ben Burgis debate whether choosing officials by lottery, as ancient Athens did, would be an improvement on representative democracy.
Carlo Ginzburg and the Antifascist Tradition
The late Carlo Ginzburg is the best-known pioneer of microhistory, looking at social change from below. His approach was deeply affected by his family’s experience of fascism and the rival antifascist traditions shaping postwar Italian society.
“Anyone but Ed Miliband”: Why Britain’s Unions Hate Net Zero
Two of Britain’s most powerful unions oppose soft-left MP Ed Miliband’s bid to become chancellor. They fear the green transition could cost jobs in the oil industry, one of the few sectors where workers have consistently secured above-inflation pay raises.
Gig Workers in Mexico Are Organizing
Hundreds of workers across Mexico who provide rides and deliveries through apps held a two-hour work stoppage last month demanding fair rates, an end to unjustified deactivations, and ultimately a collective labor agreement with app giants like Uber.
Socialist Melat Kiros Is Running for Congress in Colorado
Democratic Socialists of America–backed challengers for Congress have already notched three wins in primary elections this year. In Colorado’s elections tomorrow, Melat Kiros is hoping to join the growing bloc of socialists on Capitol Hill.
The Useless Middlemen Making Prescriptions Unaffordable
Pharmacy benefit managers sit at the center of a four-way transaction between patients, insurers, drug manufacturers, and pharmacies. They’ve figured out how to skim profit from every single one of those relationships, explains Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed.
The Wealth Tax Is Popular but Faces Serious Obstacles
Billionaire wealth has doubled in five years, and there’s a growing movement to tax it. But there’s a problem: the fate of a national wealth tax may ultimately hinge on a few words buried in an arcane passage in the Constitution.