A year after the October 7 attacks in Israel, no end to Israel’s war is on the horizon. This week’s reading list compiles ...

Following the assassination of Nasrallah on September 27 and the killing of more than 1,000 other people over the last two ...

Haitian migrants have been subjected to decades of brutal mistreatment by the U.S. government, much of which unfolded at ...

On October 1, China’s National Day, president Xi Jinping will have much to celebrate. The country looks starkly different from the war-torn and impoverished nation the Chinese Communist Party took ...

A terse telegram from Dar es Salaam first alerted Barclays Bank in London of the unexpected and immediate nationalization of its local subsidiary in Tanzania. “We are advised full compensation will be ...

Drutman is partly right: the “two-party doom loop” threatens American democracy and structural reform is needed. But his framework can’t explain how authoritarian movements have seized governing power ...

Worries about the twilight of American hegemony and China’s rise are producing a new consensus in Washington. At a recent congressional hearing on “the Chinese Communist Party’s political warfare,” ...

Drutman makes a persuasive and important case about both the need and the strategy for moving beyond a sclerotic two-party system. His core recommendation—reviving fusion voting to empower more ...

To blame our current party system for the dysfunction of our democracy is not to argue that we would be better off without parties. As Drutman says, reinvigorating our party system is “the only path ...

Drutman can’t possibly be right that the two-party system is “the whole ballgame.” The hyperpartisanship and dysfunctional politics that concerns him is happening not just in countries with two-party ...