The Good Society
Michael AlbertusHow politics can fuel or fail democracy, development, and equality
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The Pact of Free Cities
The founding mayors of the Pact of Free Cities. The Pact now has 50 cities.
Last week, mayors from ten American cities traveled to Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia, to join a network they probably couldn’t have imagined joining five yea...
The Supreme Court's Decision to Gut the Voting Rights Act is a Crisis Moment for American Democracy
This post is an interview with Nick Stephanopoulos, a professor at Harvard Law School specializing in election law and the author of Aligning Election Law. Nick has been active in a wide range of landmark lawsuits and legal cases on partisa...
Peru’s Democracy is in a Checkmate
Some of Peru’s presidential contenders gathering for a debate on April 12, 2026. Reuters/Sebastian Castaneda.
While Hungary was conducting a landmark election with global significance on April 12 – which delivered a severe rebuke to its ri...
Why JD Vance is in Hungary as Iran Burns
Vice President JD Vance with Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orbán at a campaign rally in Budapest. April 7, 2026. Photo: NYT.
The war in Iran continues front and center in American politics, as President Trump threatened to imminently obl...
Democracy is Declining Globally and in the US, and the Year Ahead Could Prove Decisive
New reports show that the vaunted "Third Wave" of democracy has now been mostly erased and American democracy is on the rocks. 2026 could determine whether there is a turnaround.
Last week, two major global democracy watchdogs released the...
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Professor of Political Science at University of Chicago and author of Land Power: Who Has It, Who Doesn't, and How That Determines the Fate of Societies. He writes on democracy equality, and development on Substack (The Good Society) and X.
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