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 ...

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

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

Every think tank, aside from the few that maintain an allegiance to the current Administration, now faces a test: How do they ...

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 ...

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In an era when sweeping demographic change has created a racial, economic, cultural, and political chasm between the generations, that old Groucho Marx riddle illuminates a paradox about America’s 74 ...

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

Blue states have the power to change liberalism and block conservatism. They just have to use it.

For nearly 50 years, Ruth Bader Ginsburg has done more than anyone to build the legal framework for women’s equality.

The Empire State Building, then the world’s tallest building at 102 stories, was completed in 1931. Building that majestic structure, later called one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World by the ...