A recent survey asks citizens from 30 countries for their views on 10 influential national leaders who have a global impact. There are many…
In this essay, I summarize major points of my Ethics for Enemies. I first consider whether torture of a wrongdoer to save his victim could…
Covering more than four decades of American social and political history, The Loneliness of the Black Republican examines the ideas and…
We show that contemporary differences in political attitudes across counties in
the American South trace their origins to slavery’s…
This paper investigates the role of mass media in times of conflict and state-sponsored
mass violence against civilians. We use a unique…
How dark money and voter disenfranchisement combined in a toxic brew that resulted in the lowest voter turnout in more than 70 years,…
What does it mean to put the civic idea at the center of one's concerns in this way? And what is its connection to citizenship? What,…
Partisan identity shapes social, mental, economic, and physical life. Using a novel dataset, we study the consequences of partisan identity…
In his new book, The Big Disconnect: Why the Internet Hasn’t Transformed Politics (Yet), Personal Democracy Forum founder Micah Sifry asks…