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The Court was the last real line of defense for the right to access abortion in this country. With Kavanaugh’s confirmation, ...
In moments of crisis, it’s easy to think that capitalism is finished. But never forget the system’s formidable ability to ...
In the fall of 2018, University of California, Berkeley economist Emmanuel Saez said, to an audience of economists, policymakers, and the press, “If the data don’t fit the theory, change the theory.” ...
China’s authoritarian model presents a new and challenging set of risks to the United States and the current international system. Over the past decade, the Chinese leadership has shifted from simply ...
The historic labor act faces unprecedented assaults in the Trump era. Here’s what that means for our democracy.
In an era when sweeping demographic change has created a racial, economic, cultural, and political chasm between the generations, that old Groucho Marx riddle illuminates a paradox about America’s 74 ...
Book Reviews When the Anti-Feminists Roared Back In the early 1970s, even Nixon was a feminist. By decade’s end, things had changed. By Alice Echols from Summer 2017, No. 45 – 16 MIN READ Tagged ...
For decades, we’ve been told markets will free us. Now, finally, we’re realizing we need freedom from the market’s worst ravages.
Symposium | Democracy’s Future: Abroad and at Home Can America’s Political Polarization Be Fixed? By Amy Walter from 2021, No. 62 - Special Issue – 9 MIN READ Tagged Democracy polarization ...
Repairing the Algorithmic Lens Suresh Venkatasubramanian from Spring 2023, No. 68 – 11 MIN READ Tagged Democracy Internet technology ...
Drive through almost any American town, and you’ll notice one building shining brighter than the rest: a hospital. The health-care industry has supplanted manufacturing as the United States’s biggest ...
The 1896 Democratic Convention, where William Jennings Bryan was nominated as the Democratic presidential nominee. Why don’t Democrats, rather than Republicans, call themselves the “Grand Old Party”?