And yet we keep proclaiming how special we are. As Webb puts it, “Hamlet got one thing right: we’re a piece of work.” For example, hummingbirds can see colors that human beings are not even able to ...

January 2021 was a very long year ago. Then, many of us who have long advocated for a post-neoliberal economics were increasingly optimistic. Joe Biden, as a newly elected President, embraced and ...

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

America is having a reform moment. According to Pew Research, hundreds of jurisdictions are adopting or considering “alternative” electoral systems. Several began doing so only in the past few years.

The beginning of China’s rise as a global power can be dated to the country’s accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001. Throughout the next 16 years of the Bush and Obama ...

On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court of the United States handed down a decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that explicitly stated that no constitutional right to abortion exists ...

There is a longstanding tendency among center- and left-leaning U.S. foundations to focus on discrete issues—health-care reform, federal legislation to curb carbon emissions, quality public K-12 ...

How Biden’s fight against monopoly can guide his party to victory, and empower American to build a truly better future.

Symposium | For a Better Democracy: Proportional Representation Giving Minor Parties a Chance By Seth Masket from Fall 2023, No. 70 – 12 MIN READ Tagged political parties Proportional Representation ...

Symposium | Can Women Save America? White Women: Our Most Divided Voting Bloc By Julie Kohler from Summer 2020, No. 57 – 15 MIN READ Tagged Donald Trump Racism Republicans voting Women ...

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 ...

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 ...