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

The United States stands out among Western democracies for its extreme partisan political polarization. It has reached the level of “pernicious polarization,” by which I mean a division of society ...

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

Arguments Think Tanks in an Authoritarian Moment When the “war of ideas” meets the war on knowledge, how can ideas come out on top? By Mark Schmitt from July 16, 2025, 4:12 pm – 12 MIN READ Tagged ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.” ...

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 ...

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 ...

Book Reviews 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 ...

At the start of this school year, a picture of two young girls sitting outside a Taco Bell swept across the Internet. They were not headed to the restaurant for lunch. Instead, they were seen ...