Democracy Americana
Thomas ZimmerReflections on American democracy and its discontents
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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America Is Going Backwards - and Falling Apart
This essay is cross-posted from Steady, where Democracy Americana is now mainly hosted.
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Democracy Americana is my main sou...
The Rise and Fall of the Second Reconstruction, 1964/65 – 2025/26
After crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge, John Lewis and other civil rights activists marching for voting rights are stopped and threatened by Alabama state troopers and local police in Selma, Alabama on “Bloody Sunday,” March 7, 1965 (Natio...
Multiracial Democracy is Young and Fragile
An illustration from Harper’s Weekly from 1867: Black men voting in a state election in the South – credit: Hulton Archive/Getty Images
This essay is cross-posted from Steady, where Democracy Americana is now mainly hosted.
I am also maki...
Why the Tech Billionaires Are Aligned with Trump
One of the Palantiri, the seeing-stones, from Peter Jackson’s movie adaptation of JRR Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings
This essay is cross-posted from Steady, where Democracy Americana is now mainly hosted.
I am also making it available here f...
Why Hungary Matters
People celebrating Orbán’s defeat in front of the Parliament building in Budapest on April 12, 2026 – credit: Ferenc Isza / AFP
This essay is cross-posted from Steady, where Democracy Americana is now mainly hosted.
I am also making it av...
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