MAGA might seem like an anti-intellectual movement, but conservatism’s past and present thinkers are deeply complicit in it.

Senator Harry Reid leans on a stack of documents pertaining to campaign finance reform during a Capitol Hill news conference ...

Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy (2025, Bloomsbury). Her previous book, The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism (2020, Bloomsbury), formed the basis ...

In 1996, President Clinton campaigned on the promise of putting thousands of new police officers on the street. Looking back, ...

Experiments across the world have tried to remove politicians themselves from decision-making. And they’ve worked—well, kind ...

The United States government has in fact recompensed injured groups in the past. So why won’t it do it for Black Americans?

The health care system in the United States is in crisis. Drastic cuts to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act threaten the ...

President Joe Biden and his team have repeatedly declared that “America is back.” The rest of the world is not so sure. Washington would promote multilateralism and champion democracy; American ...

Democratizing Finance: The Radical Promise of Fintech • Marion Laboure and Nicolas Deffrennes • Harvard University Press • 2022 • 288 pages • $35 It’s hard to prove this beyond anecdotes, but a ...

We’ve become accustomed, watching the Democratic debates, to hearing the moderators focus on the practicability of candidates’ plans to move to Medicare for All, reform immigration policy, and fight ...

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 ...