is author of The Ends of Freedom: Reclaiming America’s Lost Promise of Economic Rights and an assistant professor of economics at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at ...

Symposium | Democracy's Future: Abroad and at Home Can America’s Political Polarization Be Fixed? By Amy Walter from 2021, No. 62 - Special Issue – 9 MIN READ Tagged Democracy polarization ...

Richard Rothstein’s history of the racist housing policies of governments—yes, even liberal ones—is searing, revealing, and embarrassing.

Book Reviews When the Anti-Feminists Roared Back In the early 1970s, even Nixon was a feminist. By decade’s end, things had changed. By Alice Echols from Summer 2017, No. 45 – 16 MIN READ Tagged ...

“The denial or observance of [the right to bargain collectively] means the difference between despotism and democracy.” Senator Robert F. Wagner, speaking after the Supreme Court upheld the National ...

In moments of crisis, it’s easy to think that capitalism is finished. But never forget the system’s formidable ability to ...

For decades, we’ve been told markets will free us. Now, finally, we’re realizing we need freedom from the market’s worst ravages.

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

In an era when sweeping demographic change has created a racial, economic, cultural, and political chasm between the generations, that old Groucho Marx riddle illuminates a paradox about America’s 74 ...

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 ...

Book Reviews When Money Meets Jesus How Christian nationalism’s takeover of the GOP made Donald Trump inevitable. By Adele M. Stan from Spring 2020, No. 56 – 14 MIN READ ...

In the fall of 2018, University of California, Berkeley economist Emmanuel Saez said, to an audience of economists, policymakers, and the press, “If the data don’t fit the theory, change the theory.” ...