The November 2020 presidential election marked a moment of real optimism for those looking for a politics beyond neoliberalism. Democrats, buffeted by four years of the Trump Administration and facing ...

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 ...

What is happening to the China Evergrande Group, and why does it matter to the rest of the world? Evergrande, as it is known, was founded 25 years ago just as China began to allow home ownership. It ...

It is hard not to be depressed watching our political system at work. Red and blue Americans are not only moving further apart on social, cultural, and economic priorities, but have even convinced ...

There is a growing belief on the left that American criminal adjudication is so grossly unjust that its institutions ought to be abolished. Under this line of thinking, police, jails, prisons, and the ...

The Biden Administration spent much of 2023 making the case for its industrial policies. In speech after speech, senior Administration officials argued for the economic virtues of what they would ...

The positive history of the United States—the history of our progress toward creating that “more perfect union” the delegates to the Constitutional Convention invoked in 1787—can be told in three ...

With the end of the Cold War, a wave of optimism emerged that authoritarian and totalitarian regimes would soon give way to democratic ones. United States foreign policy sought to encourage that trend ...

Although he abhorred war, Ernest Hemingway accepted that “once you are forced into it, for whatever reason it may be, you have to win it.” Left unspecified is what winning a war actually entails. We ...

The Americans who brought the Obama era so suddenly to an end were a mixed lot. Many were straight-ticket Republicans who would have voted for any nominee the party put forward. Others were moral ...

A young woman in Iran sends a video to a journalist waiting safely outside the country. The grainy clip shows a student being beaten by Iranian authorities—one of countless episodes in the violent ...

We’ve long understood that maintaining democracy requires vigilance. But of late, the struggle has become constant and grueling, with no end in sight. American democracy is broken at a structural ...