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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 ...
Industrial policy has traditionally been conceived of as a strategic tool that nations use to gain “market share” in the context of international trade. Over the last five decades or so, the focus of ...
Illustration by Richard A. Chance. How should the United States respond to the many challenges facing democracy both at home and around the world? This was the question that the Aspen Strategy Group ...
is an economist, and sometimes a consultant. He is the author of Lying For Money and Decisions Nobody Made (Profile Books, coming next year).
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 ...
is R2H Action Georgia team leader, case manager for domestic violence survivors, community advocate, and veteran of both the U.S. Army and Navy. Erika honors the death of her father from COVID-19 in ...
is a book critic in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His latest book, Only a Voice: Essays, has just been published by Verso.
Until the late 1970s, a rough balance of power existed between democracy and capitalism. Can today’s capitalists be more like yesterday’s?
Symposium | The Future of Global Democracy Elevating Pro-Democracy Republicans By Sarah Longwell from Fall 2022, No. 66 – 13 MIN READ Tagged Democracy Illiberalism Republicans ...
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 ...
T he COVID-19 pandemic is a historic public health disaster that has occupied the attention of individuals and communities across the globe for over two years. The level of disruption caused by the ...