Yascha Mounk

Yascha Mounk is a contributing writer at The Atlantic and the author, most recently, of The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time.

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  1. Goodbye to the Prophets of Doom

    The conventional wisdom about the global economy is that the rich have been getting richer and the poor have been getting poorer. What if that isn’t true?

    An illustration of a dollar bill creased to look like a staircase
    Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty.
  2. Poland’s Imperiled Democracy

    The remarkable staying power of populist governments—thanks in part to their willingness to bend the rule of law—is a warning to America.

    Donald Tusk inside of a Poland election ballot
    Illustration by Ben Kothe / Atlantic. Source: Getty