Hamilton College. His most recent book is Reds: The Tragedy of American Communism (Basic Books, 2024).

Cohn served as chief counsel to Joseph McCarthy in the early 1950s, when the Wisconsin senator was riding roughshod over the ...

In 1971, a few weeks after The New York Times wrapped its explosive series on the Pentagon Papers, the conservative magazine National Review ran a scoop of its own: another set of secret papers, this ...

Amid the recent flurry of radical executive orders, one in particular has flown under the radar: President Trump has seized ...

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In the fall of 2018, University of California, Berkeley economist Emmanuel Saez said, to an audience of economists, policymakers, and the press, “If the data don’t fit the theory, change the theory.” ...

In the spring of 2022, Americans checking out at grocery stores and gas pumps across the nation faced a stark reality: Their dollars were rapidly losing value. As inflation surged above 8 percent—a ...

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The Editors of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas are Michael Tomasky (Editor), Jack Meserve (Managing Editor), and Delphine d'Amora (Associate Editor).

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On Election Day 2016, hundreds flocked to Susan B. Anthony’s gravesite in Rochester, New York to place their “I Voted” stickers on her tombstone. Video from the day shows a steady stream of visitors, ...