The past year has seen several self-identified democratic socialists prevail in key local races. But what exactly does it ...

For 40 years, social democratic parties radically improved life for workers. The labor movement and worker militancy made it possible. After World War II, political parties championing redistribution, ...

Over the last five or so decades, American elections have become increasingly defined by what they don’t accomplish. The classical liberal model of free and fair elections to select representatives ...

Every design choice that social media platforms make nudges users toward certain actions, values and emotional states. It is a design choice to offer a news feed that combines verified news sources ...

Since its inception, social media has been touted by some as a way to bring people together, even to collaborate and advance revolutionary causes. But research from the University of Kansas has found ...

ANDY BURNHAM is going to be the latest to be handed the task of trying to make social democracy work in the 21st ...

Question: Is social media bad for democracy? Answer: There are concerns about social media, and a fairly robust debate on the importance of platforms such as TikTok on the social and political ...

As democratic socialism returns to the U.S. public eye, socialists need to make clear how their vision differs from the liberalism most Americans are familiar with. Here are five crucial distinctive ...

Evan Berman grew up in the Netherlands, studied and worked in the United States, taught in South Korea, and ran academic programs in Taiwan and New Zealand. Work in the last country facilitated his ...

Nevertheless, the nature of things does not change in accordance with the decisions of the ECCI plenums. A contradiction does exist between democracy and fascism. It is not at all “absolute,” or, ...

We are social beings. So, within every group, decisions must be made about how to live together, preserving wellbeing and relations with others. Historically, those decisions were made by tribal ...