There’s an answer to the question of how we crawl out of the present-day polarized quicksand. It’s called fusion voting through minor parties, and its time has come.

Dan Cantor wrote our Winter 2026 cover story on fusion voting. Here, he answers some common questions readers might have on the topic. “Do no harm” is the heart of the doctor’s Hippocratic Oath. It ...

Presidential Chair and Professor of History, Emerita at the University of New Hampshire. She is the author of several books on modern American history, including The Highest Glass Ceiling: Women’s ...

Realigners: Partisan Hacks, Political Visionaries, and the Struggle to Rule American Democracy by Timothy Shenk • Farrar, Straus and Giroux • 2022 • 464 pages • $30 In 2002, Ruy Teixeira and John B.

Less than 36 hours after the polls closed, Democrats had formed up into their traditional circular firing squad—and this time, after they won the presidency! But Joe Biden’s margin over Donald Trump ...

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” —James Baldwin in No Name in the Street The COVID-19 pandemic is a historic public health disaster that has ...

Beyond any doubt, women’s reproductive health care is in serious jeopardy domestically and abroad due to Trump-era platforms and policies. President Trump has stacked the courts with judges who show ...

The authoritarian threat won’t recede until the world’s democracies—the United States most of all—show the world that they uphold democratic norms and deliver for their people.