Osita Nwanevu

Osita Nwanevu is a contributing editor at The New Republic, a columnist at The Guardian, the Democratic Institutions fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, and the author of The Right of the People: Democracy and the Case for a New American Founding (Random House, 2025).

An Amazon worker affiliated with the Teamsters on strike at a company delivery hub in Maspeth, Queens, last year.

To Make Democracy Work, Give More of It to Workers To Make Democracy Work, Give More of It to Workers

The fight to reclaim American democracy has to begin with our oligarchic political economy.

Aug 14, 2025 / Osita Nwanevu

Who Is In Charge in the Biden White House?

Who Is In Charge in the Biden White House? Who Is In Charge in the Biden White House?

In "The Last Politician", Franklin Foer offers a portrait of an administration at odds with itself.

Mar 11, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Osita Nwanevu