The Court’s ruling on presidential immunity makes us all vulnerable.
Paul Starr
Paul Starr is co-founder and co-editor of The American Prospect, and professor of sociology and public affairs at Princeton University. A winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and the Bancroft Prize in American history, he is the author of eight books, including American Contradiction: Revolution and Revenge from the 1950s to Now (Yale University Press, October 2025).
Posted inBooks
It’s the Working Class, Stupid
John Judis and Ruy Teixeira want Democrats to focus on working-class interests and back off cultural radicalism.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
The Life-and-Death Cost of Conservative Power
New research shows widening gaps between red and blue states in life expectancy.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Moving On to Adversity-Based Affirmative Action
Here’s a package of options for turning a legal defeat into an opportunity.
Posted inPolitics
How ‘Fair Maps’ Went Foul
Red states refuse to play by the same rules as blue states.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Winners From the Midterms? The Supreme Court’s Right Wing.
The restraint of congressional overrides is probably gone.
Posted inBooks
How American Politics Turned Deadly
The explosive consequences of the realignment of the two major parties
Posted inAmerica and the World
What We Have at Stake in Ukraine
A war to prevent the past from becoming our future
Posted inPolitics
The Center-Right and Our Future
Should liberals and progressives take the hand that some anti-Trump conservatives are extending? Let’s talk.
Posted inBuilding Back America
Democrats, Be Careful With the Medicaid Expansion
The Medicaid expansion provisions of the reconciliation bill risk being overturned by the Supreme Court.