We can’t just return to the status quo ante. Paradoxically, we’ll need a federal government with both more power and less.

Congress can’t get it done. But in Washington state, they’ve created a model for the other Washington to build on some day.

Before a police shooting makes headlines, before the shooting ever happens, there is the moment of contact between the police officer and the eventual victim. Sometimes the officer is responding to a ...

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.” ...

The U.S. government’s announcement Wednesday that it will enter negotiations to waive World Trade Organization (WTO) intellectual property rules is a victory for democratizing technology, for ...

Why don’t Democrats, rather than Republicans, call themselves the “Grand Old Party”? As one of the two main players in American politics, they not only antedate their adversaries by at least a ...

Scenes from American higher education: “Do I work a shift to feed our kids, or do I come to school to try and better our lives? Doing papers until midnight is really hard when you are thinking, ‘How ...

Freedom From the Market: America’s Fight to Liberate Itself From the Grip of the Invisible Hand By Mike Konczal • The New Press • 2021 • 256 pages • $25.99 In early March 2021, the Biden ...

Wednesday, after two of the most destructive and tumultuous weeks in our nation’s history, Joe Biden will become the 46th President of the United States. The remarkably broad coalition of voters from ...

The rise and sustained power of the right has been the primary theme of American political history since the late 1970s. From Ronald Reagan’s election and transformative first year in the White House, ...

It is almost axiomatic that authoritarian (or “would be” authoritarian) leaders are innately hostile to free and open universities. Consider, for instance, the obsessive preoccupation over much of the ...

At the start of this school year, a picture of two young girls sitting outside a Taco Bell swept across the Internet. They were not headed to the restaurant for lunch. Instead, they were seen ...