White Storm: How Racism Poisoned American Democracy

A piercing examination of America's struggle with racism and why this now threatens the survival of the nation's democracy

When the U.S. Capitol was stormed in 2021, it was an attack on the very idea of America as a pluralist democracy. It was also a reminder that the worst threat to the United States today doesn’t come from any foreign despot, but from domestic racism. In The White Storm, the journalist and author Martin Gelin looks back at two decades as a political correspondent and three...