Far from safeguarding democracy, America’s system of government helped create this authoritarian moment—and only mass ...

Miller warns that liberal hopes in such checks and balances are misplaced. Far from a safeguard of democracy, she argues, ...

The hallowed story Americans like to tell about our constitutional order gets it precisely backward—on that, Lisa Miller is utterly convincing. Rather than empowering democracy, our system obstructs ...

The Democratic Party’s decision to double down on checks and balances as the best response to the Trump administration is only the latest reflection of its paucity of political vision. Both Joe Biden ...

I am grateful for these provocative and engaging responses. Start with the elephant in the room: Is this the right moment to critique our system of checks and balances, after a near-majority of voters ...

Lisa Miller clearly comes to condemn Trump, not to praise him. Yet her polemic captures a common justification of his administration’s violent, cruel, and authoritarian ethnonationalism. This striking ...

Lisa Miller’s case against the myth of American checks and balances is spot-on. In my corner of the world—organized labor—an overestimation of the power of the courts and an underestimation of mass ...

The system is not functioning well—Lisa Miller is right about that. She insightfully dissects the limits of our traditional understanding of checks and balances, showing why a major national movement ...

As we struggle to answer his policies with progressive alternatives, the history of popular economic nationalism and its often-racist politics offers a powerful warning. The answer, though, isn’t a ...

Crackdowns on pro-Palestinian protest force a reckoning with inflated definitions of harm and harassment.

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Graciana del Castillo is the author of Rebuilding War-Torn States (Oxford, 2008) and of Guilty Party: The International Community in Afghanistan (forthcoming, 2014). She was Senior Research Scholar, ...