When I was a young progressive coming of age in the identity politics era of the late 1990s, I thought we didn’t need any new ideas. In fact, I thought we had everything we needed—all the ...

China’s authoritarian model presents a new and challenging set of risks to the United States and the current international system. Over the past decade, the Chinese leadership has shifted from simply ...

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.” ...

A Tale of Two Capitalisms Will capitalism survive today’s extremes of inequality? And if so, which capitalism will it be? By Arthur Goldhammer from Spring 2020, No. 56 – 13 MIN READ Tagged Capitalism ...

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 ...

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 ...

Blue states have the power to change liberalism and block conservatism. They just have to use it.

Banking on Democracy Fed governance can be improved, of course, but it is not fundamentally undemocratic. By Chris Hughes from Spring 2025, No. 76 – 12 MIN READ Tagged Democracy Federal Reserve ...