The ideological dimension of U.S. geopolitical competition with China has become unmistakable. Not only the United States, but other allies including those in Europe now use terms such as “systemic ...

“I remember the day that they started spraying hog waste on us. It was a Saturday in the mid-1990s . . . . Just as I was thinking to myself that there was no way that he would begin spraying waste so ...

It’s not easy to be optimistic if you’re on the left side of the American political debate these days. Donald Trump is back as President, with a compliant, Republican-majority Congress ready to do his ...

Who Is Government?: The Untold Story of Public Service edited by Michael Lewis • Riverhead Books • 2025 • 243 pages • $30 The profiles are now collected in a new book under the title Who Is Government ...

In a recent lawsuit, Noelle Dunphy alleges that her former employer, Rudolph Giuliani, offered himself as an intermediary in a scheme to buy presidential pardons. In the words of the complaint, ...

The privilege against self-incrimination was initially developed in English law, and was well established by the end of the seventeenth century. In the United States, the Fifth Amendment provides this ...

Every week, policymakers, economists, business, and labor leaders anxiously await the release of the latest unemployment data, one of the most widely used indicators of the country’s economic health ...

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 ...

“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 ...

The Quiet Coup: Neoliberalism and the Looting of America by Mehrsa Baradaran • W.W. Norton • 2024 • 464 pages • $32.50 Neoliberalism, an ideology and form of governance that came to power in the 1970s ...

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 ...

This article draws on some ideas developed further in Practical Radicals: Seven Strategies to Change the World by Deepak Bhargava and Stephanie Luce (New Press, November 2023). How could it be that ...