The echoes can still be heard today of what happened on the Columbia University campus 50 years ago this month.
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).
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This is American democracy’s stress test. We have only limited time to pass it.
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Looking beyond Trump, Democrats ought to focus on opening Medicare to people at age 50 and capping excessive health-care prices.
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An American Way for America Now
Why the country needs a Democratic party that knows it needs white working-class voters
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After Comey, Congressional Republicans Totally Control Trump
To avoid impeachment, the president has no real choice but to do their bidding.
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The reaction against the GOP could boost progressive organizing and bolder reforms.
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Part II of The Republican Health-Care Unraveling
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When an Election Damages Democracy
American democracy faces the risk of systemic harm in 2016.
