American democracy

On Saturday, July 4, Americans celebrated the nation’s 250th anniversary with the familiar fanfare: fireworks, flags, patriotic speeches, and ritual invocations of liberty. Yet at this extraordinary milestone, when the country is more deeply divided than at any time in…

What happens when a political outsider acts as an unsanctioned auditor of the system? Trump’s presidency exposes weaknesses in American democracy that had long gone unnoticed. Every system eventually encounters the user it was never designed to survive. In finance,…