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 ...

Capitalism Alone: The Future of the System that Rules the World by Branko Milanovic • Harvard University Press • 2019 • 304 pages • $29.95 In certain quarters of the United States it is taken for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.” ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein • Liveright Publishing • 2017 • 368 pages • $27.95 Nearly 50 years ago, the Kerner Commission ...

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, ...