Even some liberals toasted William F. Buckley Jr. as a patrician gentleman. A long-awaited new biography corrects that record ...

Amid the recent flurry of radical executive orders, one in particular has flown under the radar: President Trump has seized ...

This article draws on some ideas developed further in Practical Radicals: Seven Strategies to Change the World by Deepak Bhargava and Stephanie Luce (New Press, November 2023). How could it be that ...

The deep divides in American education, from pre-kindergarten to post-graduate, threaten to create a class-based society. Advantage and disadvantage are inherited to a degree that undermines our ...

Storytelling is the essence of politics. In stable times, politicians can spend their hours detailing how they plan to put a fatter chicken in every pot. But in hard times, they need to craft ...

In his first State of the Union speech, delivered in March 2022, President Joe Biden summed up his approach to the economy: “Build the economy from the bottom up and the middle out, not the top down.” ...

This essay is part of a series published with the support of the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. Over the past 35 years, the economy has been transformed by technological change. The computing ...

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 ...

Progressives have lost power in Washington. Every national institution now lies in the hands of the Republican Party. Given the slim chances of Democrats’ winning back Congress in 2018, many think ...

Just two years ago, this would have been an extraordinarily radical essay. Its premise is that court-packing—increasing the number of seats on the Supreme Court to change its ideological makeup—is, in ...

On Election Day 2016, hundreds flocked to Susan B. Anthony’s gravesite in Rochester, New York to place their “I Voted” stickers on her tombstone. Video from the day shows a steady stream of visitors, ...

Is the culture war over? That seems an absurd question. This is an age when Confederate monuments still stand; when white privilege denialism is surging on social media; when legislators and educators ...