The United States stands out among Western democracies for its extreme partisan political polarization. It has reached the level of “pernicious polarization,” by which I mean a division of society ...

The Constitution is lauded as the cornerstone of our democracy. But what if it’s the reason we don’t actually have one?

American Compass claims to have the answers to what ails us. But simplifying complex issues doesn’t get us any closer to addressing them.

Zbigniew Brzezinski’s ideas had a profound impact in his time. What would he think of the world we face today?

The signs of globalization’s downsides were there for the elites to see. They just chose not to look at them. Ever.

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 ...

It is almost axiomatic that authoritarian (or “would be” authoritarian) leaders are innately hostile to free and open universities. Consider, for instance, the obsessive preoccupation over much of the ...

In November 2021, then-Governor Charlie Baker of Massachusetts, a Republican, signed into law new congressional maps that would, as before, give Democrats all nine of the state’s House seats—despite ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Storytelling is the essence of politics. In stable times, politicians can spend their hours detailing how they plan to put a fatter chicken in every pot. But in hard times, they need to craft ...