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

The historic labor act faces unprecedented assaults in the Trump era. Here’s what that means for our democracy.

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A second strand was race-based local zoning laws. As African Americans migrated to cities in Southern and border states after the end of Reconstruction, those cities began to enact ordinances ...

Amy Walter is Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter. A contributor to the PBS NewsHour, she provides weekly political analysis for the popular “Politics Monday" ...

Features Liberalism Without Illusions We must free ourselves from the delusion that history is progressive and accept that the dark side of our nature is here to stay. By William A. Galston June 17, ...

In early March 2021, the Biden Administration rolled out the first part of its multitrillion dollar plan to meet the COVID-19 crisis and rebuild the U.S. economy. The $1.9 trillion American Rescue ...

Features The Baby Boomers’ Unfinished Business We haven’t been paying our way. It’s time we cleaned up the ledger. By Paul Taylor from Winter 2018, No. 47 – 20 MIN READ Tagged Baby Boomers Generations ...

In the early 1970s American feminism was on a roll. The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), left for dead for decades, sailed through both houses of Congress in spring 1972. Within three months, 20 states, ...

The other profile Lewis wrote for the series similarly addresses how market forces can come up short on matters of life or death. Like Christopher Mark, Heather Stone advanced the work of a parent—in ...

The 1896 Democratic Convention, where William Jennings Bryan was nominated as the Democratic presidential nominee. Why don’t Democrats, rather than Republicans, call themselves the “Grand Old Party”?