Why don’t Democrats, rather than Republicans, call themselves the “Grand Old Party”? As one of the two main players in American politics, they not only antedate their adversaries by at least a ...

In this scenario, states or localities can step in and establish their own pro-worker labor laws, and lawmakers in three states (California, Massachusetts, and New York) are currently considering ...

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 ...

Abundance also requires a full reimagining of public and private investment in things like housing, clean energy development, and modernized transportation networks—areas where current market and ...

There are only 7 percent of the [federal] workforce under the age of 30.” Stier’s group is trying to increase young people’s awareness of the opportunities government offers for “making a difference.” ...

In 1971, a few weeks after The New York Times wrapped its explosive series on the Pentagon Papers, the conservative magazine National Review ran a scoop of its own: another set of secret papers, this ...

Cohn served as chief counsel to Joseph McCarthy in the early 1950s, when the Wisconsin senator was riding roughshod over the ...

Hamilton College. His most recent book is Reds: The Tragedy of American Communism (Basic Books, 2024).

The Empire State Building, then the world’s tallest building at 102 stories, was completed in 1931. Building that majestic structure, later called one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World by the ...

Did the Biden Administration’s departure from decades of economic policymaking consensus create the conditions that so inflamed the electorate against progressives? Or were high growth, low ...

Campaign materials for and against instituting MMP in New Zealand. (Office of the Clerk/Parliamentary Service. Licensed by the Clerk of the House of Representatives and/or the Parliamentary ...

Alicia Gearty. American democracy is under direct threat today, and that threat must be vanquished. But in the longer term, we also need to think about ways to make democracy in the United States more ...