Delphine d'Amora

Washington, D.C., United States

Associate Editor at Democracy Journal

Contributor and Researcher at Freelance

Associate editor @DemJournal, former fellow @MotherJones & reporter @MoscowTimes.

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Articles

Mr. Moral Authority

Dec 18, 2024 | democracyjournal.org | Delphine d'Amora

John Lewis: A Life by David Greenberg • Simon & Schuster • 2024 • 704 pages • $35David Greenberg’s new book, John Lewis: A Life, is a well-researched, engaging, and revealing biography of the civil rights leader and congressman. Lewis represented Georgia in the U.S. House of Representatives for 33 years, from 1987 until his death in July 2020. Greenberg, a professor of history at Rutgers University and a contributing editor to Politico, has written the second complete biography on Lewis.
Needed: A Transparency Guardian

Dec 18, 2024 | democracyjournal.org | Delphine d'Amora

When President Trump named Oklahoma’s Scott Pruitt to head the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 2016, he was a controversial pick. But Pruitt’s policy positions quickly became overshadowed by another set of problems when it was revealed that he crossed various ethical lines while in office. In one instance, he rented a condo co-owned by the wife of an energy lobbyist at a below-market rate. In another, he hired a dubiously massive security detail.
When the Personal Was Political

Dec 17, 2024 | democracyjournal.org | Delphine d'Amora

In November, citizens of the United States again voted against a woman who would have been the first female President, electing instead an unrepentant misogynist who has been accused of sexual wrongdoing by more than a dozen women and found liable by a jury for sexual abuse.
Creatures of the Swamp

Dec 17, 2024 | democracyjournal.org | Delphine d'Amora

When I came to Washington, D.C. as a reporter in the late 1980s, another journalist gave me a tip. There’s a building downtown, he said, that’s a Justice Department annex, and you need to visit the office there that handles reports filed under the Foreign Agents Registration Act, widely known as FARA. These are documents submitted by lobbyists, publicists, consultants, and others working to influence Congress, the executive branch, and the public on behalf of foreign governments and entities.
Playing Chicken with Workers’ Lives

Dec 13, 2024 | democracyjournal.org | Delphine d'Amora

In September 2019, Human Rights Watch issued a scathing assessment of working conditions in the booming U.S. meatpacking industry.
Our Plastic Obsession

Dec 12, 2024 | democracyjournal.org | Delphine d'Amora

Credit cards hold a disproportionately large place in the American economic psyche, with headlines regularly lamenting the fact that credit card debt has reached record levels—and that in our nation’s collective profligacy, we are spending beyond our means. Plastic Capitalism, Sean Vanatta’s excellent new history of the bank credit card industry, tells the story of how that all came about, focusing especially on the legislative history of the industry from the 1950s through the ’80s.
The “Servant Leader”: Adopting the “We Mindset”

Jun 11, 2024 | democracyjournal.org | Delphine d'Amora
On Campus Free Speech

Mar 22, 2024 | democracyjournal.org | Erwin Chemerinsky |Delphine d'Amora |Sigal R. Ben-Porath

Much of the debate around the rights of students to protest and of universities to enforce rules of conduct has become repetitive and frustrating. The well-worn arguments over who ought to be platformed or deplatformed, who was canceled or allowed to foment hate, haven’t gotten us anywhere. We need a better conversation, one that illuminates the deeper issues underlying our daily screaming matches.