American Compass claims to have the answers to what ails us. But simplifying complex issues doesn’t get us any closer to ...

The Constitution is lauded as the cornerstone of our democracy. But what if it’s the reason we don’t actually have one?

The signs of globalization’s downsides were there for the elites to see. They just chose not to look at them. Ever.

Zbigniew Brzezinski’s ideas had a profound impact in his time. What would he think of the world we face today?

This Thursday, President Biden will host (virtually) the first of two Summits for Democracy, which will convene officials from governments around the world with leaders from civil society and the ...

The essays that follow, on the current state of macroeconomic analysis, were motivated by at least two developments. First, consider the question posed by Queen Elizabeth, who, on visiting the London ...

A s we move deeper into the second Trump era, it is becoming increasingly clear just how much the current regime’s policy agenda is also a project that seeks a radical transformation of our governing ...

Yes, these authors purport to argue that Trump is a man of faith. Or he’s working on it. Or something.

In November 2021, then-Governor Charlie Baker of Massachusetts, a Republican, signed into law new congressional maps that would, as before, give Democrats all nine of the state’s House seats—despite ...

The political story of the 2020s is half-written—two wildly unorthodox Trump Administrations bookending a single Biden term, all three breaking in significant ways from the bipartisan economic ...

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 Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein • Liveright Publishing • 2017 • 368 pages • $27.95 Nearly 50 years ago, the Kerner Commission ...