We’re in trouble in this country. Huge percentages of Americans are out of work, and Black and brown communities are bearing the brunt of the health and economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Are tariffs an effective tool to shape markets—or a regressive tax whose goals can be achieved via others means? A debate.

It’s as predictable as the Republican call for “thoughts and prayers”: After a mass shooting involving an assault weapon comes a chorus of voices wanting to make it easier to lock up the “crazy” ...

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Is the culture war over? That seems an absurd question. This is an age when Confederate monuments still stand; when white privilege denialism is surging on social media; when legislators and educators ...

The year 2022 saw the first Black woman confirmed to the United States Supreme Court. We have recently elected the first Black American President and Vice President. Symbolic progress for Black ...

The beginning of China’s rise as a global power can be dated to the country’s accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001. Throughout the next 16 years of the Bush and Obama ...

Just Giving: Why Philanthropy Is Failing Democracy and How It Can Do Better by Rob Reich • Princeton University Press • 2018 • 256 Pages • $27.95 To say that the very wealthy exert disproportionate, ...

A few years before he retired last summer, Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens remarked that since 1971, every one of the justices appointed to the Court—he included himself—was more conservative ...

President Joe Biden and his team have repeatedly declared that “America is back.” The rest of the world is not so sure. Washington would promote multilateralism and champion democracy; American ...

Seventy-seven years ago, the founders of the Mont Pelerin Society laid out a stark landscape. “The central values of civilization are in danger,” wrote the newly formed group of neoliberal thinkers.

On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court of the United States handed down a decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that explicitly stated that no constitutional right to abortion exists ...