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

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.” ...

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 ...

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 ...

In early 2018, Larry Kramer, the dean of Stanford Law School and the president of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, which held assets of about $10 billion and disbursed around $400 million a ...

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 ...

Are democracy and capitalism compatible? Or, to put it differently: What made democracy and capitalism compatible for decades, even centuries, and what strains this relationship today? The end of the ...

Stable, consolidated democracies are defined, in large part, by the durability of their formal institutions. Citizens, elected officials, and political parties engage in politics expecting democratic ...

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 March, President Trump declared himself a “wartime President” leading the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic. He was right about the human toll—in two months the pandemic has killed more Americans ...

In the 1930s, former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt faced the monumental challenge of restoring Americans’ faith in the economy. Agriculture and heavy manufacturing were at the heart of ...

It’s official: Facebook and Google have taken over digital advertising. Not only that, they’re now the leading players in all advertising, accounting for nearly half of total ad spending in the United ...