There's an active debate in Democratic politics between progressives and moderates about how to build a winning coalition. A new report from a pair of California researchers, shared exclusively with ...

The following is an excerpt from “Healing Middle-Class Democracy: Respecting Each Other, Negotiating Honestly, and Cooperating Fairly,” released March 24, 2026, by RealClear Publishing. As we have ...

Last school year, Massachusetts teacher Andrew Swan started to feel like the assignments he had long relied on to illustrate how government works for his students were falling short. In one, his 8th ...

Both major U.S. political parties regularly tout their commitment to working-class Americans and claim to be the party of the working class. However, neither the Democrats nor the Republicans nominate ...

A dozen students gathered around a classroom table one afternoon last fall, their professor’s dog napping in a patch of sunlight on the floor, to do something they rarely did anywhere else on campus: ...

When I was in college, I was active in student government. Looking back at it now a decade later, it’s somewhat surreal to realize that in many ways the Student Government Association at my small, ...