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 representative ...

January 2021 was a very long year ago. Then, many of us who have long advocated for a post-neoliberal economics were increasingly optimistic. Joe Biden, as a newly elected President, embraced and ...

Divided We Stand: The Battle Over Women’s Rights and Family Values that Polarized American Politics by Marjorie J. Spruill • Bloomsbury • 2017 • 448 Pages • $33 In the early 1970s American feminism ...

I hear that question a lot from Delawareans—nurses and cops, dental hygienists and mechanics. I also heard it plenty in 2024 as I campaigned for Kamala Harris and Senate Democrats. Elected ...

The Case against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money By Bryan Caplan • Princeton University Press • 2018 • 416 pages • $29.95 George Mason University economist Bryan ...

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 ...

Nearly three years after Donald Trump won the presidency, in part by promising a substantial boost for American workers, Democrats are still attempting to agree on an economic message to help them win ...

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 ...

Just Giving: Why Philanthropy Is Failing Democracy and How It Can Do Better by Rob Reich • Princeton University Press • 2018 • 256 Pages • $27.95 To say that the very wealthy exert disproportionate, ...

We have known about climate change for many decades. Yet we have failed to act. Our tardiness in reducing carbon pollution is beginning to show: Hurricanes are destroying entire communities, drought ...

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 ...