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 ...

The Americans who brought the Obama era so suddenly to an end were a mixed lot. Many were straight-ticket Republicans who would have voted for any nominee the party put forward. Others were moral ...

Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s first sex discrimination case came to her, improbably enough, from a man. The man who handed her the case was her husband, Martin Ginsburg; the gentleman she represented was a ...

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 ...

When we think about economic growth, we generally think about inventions and technology—from the combustion engine to the iPhone—and about the effects of capital accumulation, like big dams or ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 political story of the 2020s is half-written—two wildly unorthodox Trump Administrations bookending a single Biden term, all three breaking in significant ways from the bipartisan economic ...

We’re learning a lot about how government can shape our lives by watching the second Trump Administration dismantle it. One lesson is that government’s capacity to do good runs on information no less ...

“The denial or observance of [the right to bargain collectively] means the difference between despotism and democracy.” Senator Robert F. Wagner, speaking after the Supreme Court upheld the National ...

The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) may be the most powerful source of state capacity across the 50 states, employing over 1,400 people and overseeing the electricity, natural gas, water ...