On December 6, President Donald J. Trump sat in the Oval Office at the Resolute desk, surrounded by Dominionist worship leaders who laid their hands on him and commenced to pray. While most in the ...

Over the past few years, publications, consulting companies, and think tanks have been wringing their hands with increasing urgency over the “the future of work.” Politico Magazine recently dedicated ...

Since Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Democratic primary victory in New York’s 14th Congressional District, the question of how to pay for ambitious progressive programs such as universal health care and a ...

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 ...

Key to the upcoming Republican tax plan is more than obvious: Both the congressional and the Senate versions passed so far benefit the wealthy, period. Both versions benefit large corporations, period ...

Maybe the only silver lining of the 2008 financial crisis was its prompting of much-needed congressional action to make the financial system safer and fairer, ultimately resulting in the passage of ...

Obviously, much has changed in the month since Wittes posted this pro-Kavanaugh testimonial. In his new essay, Wittes candidly acknowledges that both the allegations against Kavanaugh, and Kavanaugh’s ...

At the nine-month point of the Trump presidency, Shadi Hamid has a message for everybody: calm down. So far, Hamid writes, the most apocalyptic predictions haven’t come to pass—and the expectation ...

Political realignments occur in response to crises. The Whig/Jacksonian Democratic electoral system was broken up by irrepressible conflicts over slavery. The New Deal Coalition arose in response to ...

When the New York Times hired Bret Stephens as an opinion columnist last spring, editor James Bennet sent an announcement memo highlighting Stephens’s 2013 Pulitzer and praising his “profound ...

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 ...