In an 1822 letter to the American jurist and statesman W.T. Barry, James Madison wrote: “A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce ...

I don’t believe I’ve ever been associated with the pessimistic school of American history. Much to my great sadness, I belong there now. Over the course of my long career in public policy, there was ...

Symposium | Trump Vs. Democracy Corrupting Environmental Policymaking By John Podesta from October 2020, No. 60, Special Issue – 6 MIN READ Tagged Democracy Donald Trump environment environmental ...

Until the late 1970s, a rough balance of power existed between democracy and capitalism. Can today’s capitalists be more like yesterday’s?

For the past year and a half, the United States has been battling the COVID-19 pandemic along with the ensuing economic fallout. Now, Congress and the Biden-Harris Administration’s biggest task, along ...

In his 1979 book, The Question of Palestine, the academic, literary critic, and Palestinian-American activist Edward Said observed of Palestine that “[O]ne of the features of a small non-European ...

When we think about the health or weakness of the economy, we tend to look first to the big indicators: the Dow Jones industrial average, the sales figures of the Big Three automakers, and the success ...

One big problem with the multitrillion-dollar Biden investments was that most of the money was filtered through antiquated ...

, MPA, co-founded Marked By Covid when her father died in June 2020 due to the government’s mismanagement of the pandemic. She is leading a national movement for COVID justice and remembrance.

After 1,460 days, the news finally came. When you have waited four interminable years to experience a wished-for verdict, conjured in fantasy over many a sleepless night, the moment of its stark ...

Two of the House of Representatives’ leading fighters for democracy—one scorched by personal tragedy—explain what’s at stake.

The essays that follow, on the current state of macroeconomic analysis, were motivated by at least two developments. First, consider the question posed by Queen Elizabeth, who, on visiting the London ...