The Court was the last real line of defense for the right to access abortion in this country. With Kavanaugh’s confirmation, ...

The historic labor act faces unprecedented assaults in the Trump era. Here’s what that means for our democracy.

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Lanchester sees statistics as a product of the same Enlightenment that gave birth to the United States—“numbers created by the state to help it understand itself and ultimately to govern itself.” And ...

In an era when sweeping demographic change has created a racial, economic, cultural, and political chasm between the generations, that old Groucho Marx riddle illuminates a paradox about America’s 74 ...

The 1896 Democratic Convention, where William Jennings Bryan was nominated as the Democratic presidential nominee. Why don’t Democrats, rather than Republicans, call themselves the “Grand Old Party”?

As recently as a year or two ago, the consensus among economists and much of the political sphere was that the only policy required to deal with climate change was some form of carbon tax. With an ...

For more than a decade, American democracy has been in a steep decline. We have known for a long time that our democracy has become more polarized and dysfunctional since the slash and burn politics ...

In our book, we sought to make a broad and accessible case for public provisions of many kinds—and we agree that neoliberalism has failed. A response to Vanessa Williamson.

A Journal of IdeasFeatures Liberalism Without Illusions We must free ourselves from the delusion that history is progressive and accept that the dark side of our nature is here to stay. By William A.

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Donald Trump has seized control over previously “independent” federal regulators. That’s problematic—but Democrats should resist the urge to revert to the way things were.