In the early 1970s American feminism was on a roll. The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), left for dead for decades, sailed through both houses of Congress in spring 1972. Within three months, 20 states, ...

In early March 2021, the Biden Administration rolled out the first part of its multitrillion dollar plan to meet the COVID-19 crisis and rebuild the U.S. economy. The $1.9 trillion American Rescue ...

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

In moments of crisis, it’s easy to think that capitalism is finished. But don't forget the system’s formidable ability to ...

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”?

Photo by Coco Curranski via CC 2.0 Why should I care about posterity? What has posterity ever done for me?” In an era when sweeping demographic change has created a racial, economic, cultural, and ...

Features Saving Democracy—Realistically Yes, we disdain the Electoral College. In the meantime, there are more realistic ways to unlock our democratic Gordian Knot. By Larry Diamond from Summer 2022, ...

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.

Responses Reviving Public Action 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We must approach the world’s most populous country with an eye to its wide variation and profound contradictions. This is true of China’s changing role on the world stage—its trade policies, military ...