A conversation with Jake Grumbach and Adam Bonica, moderated by Osita Nwanevu.

Join us for this online event with Jake Grumbach and Adam Bonica—authors of the recent BR forum essay, “How Not to Defeat Authoritarianism”—on the future of the Democratic Party, moderated by Osita Nwanevu. The panelists will discuss the 2026 primaries, the political environment ahead of November’s midterm elections, the fate of the Democratic establishment in the face of progressive wins, and more.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Adam Bonica is Professor of Political Science at Stanford University. He writes the On Data and Democracy newsletter on Substack and is coauthor, with Maya Sen, of The Judicial Tug of War: How Lawyers, Politicians, and Ideological Incentives Shape the American Judiciary.

Jake Grumbach is Associate Professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and a contributing editor at Boston Review. He is author of Laboratories Against Democracy: How National Parties Transformed State Politics.

Osita Nwanevu, a columnist at The Guardian and contributing editor at The New Republic, is author of The Right of the People: Democracy and the Case for a New American Founding.

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DETAILS

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