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 ...

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 ...

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.” ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Along with creaky knees and extra pounds, many—myself included—carried a backpack of regrets about the way the road to hell ...