Five ways the address continues to inspire, instruct, and inform contemporary efforts to renew democracy.

In the complicated post-industrial society of the United States, it may not be possible to downsize the government—which means the future for whistleblowing looks bright.

A new book by Perry Anderson masterfully recounts the rise and fall of the Brazilian Left. Where it goes wrong is its treatment of the Right.

Parliamentary democracies are generally more efficient than presidential ones because the executive and legislative branches are fused.

Canada’s post-national identity makes it immune to populist politics—but not to fragmentation and separatism.

History will judge Trump as harshly for his betrayal of the Kurds as it has the apostles of “peace in our time.”

A new sculpture by Kehinde Wiley is a one-man stand against the Confederate monuments littered throughout the South.

Pell Grants for prisoners cut costs, reduce recidivism, and offer those behind bars a second chance. Why aren’t we funding them?

Trump’s blatant bigotry makes it easy to cast racists as loud, obnoxious villains who need to be named and shamed. But the most pernicious forms of racism today are systemic, not individual.

Contemporary millennial culture has more than enough transgression. What it lacks is transgression in the service of transcendence.