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

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

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 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.” ...

Dark Money: The Hidden History of The Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane Mayer • Doubleday • 2016 • 449 pages • $29.95 Ida Tarbell’s extraordinary 1904 book, The History of the ...

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 ...

Federal and state regulators have recently taken significant action to curb concentrated corporate power in our economy. Some notable steps include state enforcers filing new antitrust cases against ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy by Adam Jentleson • Liveright • 2021 • 336 pages • $26.95 A frequent sight on C-SPAN’s feed from the Senate floor ...