The cracks in our story appeared last fall, when most of us voted for a president who's repeatedly proven himself to be ...

When Maureen Long talks to the public about her work, she likes to ask her audience to close their eyes and think of a landscape with incredible geology. She hears a lot of the same suggestions: ...

Trump's followers have embraced so many absurd, illogical contradictions they have no way back to reality. Do we?

Discrimination based on birth was outlawed in India in 1950 but the legacy of the caste system continues to be felt around the world.

He completed his manuscript two years later at the University of Chicago (where I teach), publishing it as The Dual State, with the modest subtitle A Contribution to the Theory of Dictatorship. The ...

In a recent interview with Professor Sukhadeo Thorat, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi criticized India's merit system as "completely ... merit is dominated by upper-caste narratives, leading to ...

America’s health care system is a mess. Its incentives are costing the U.S. a fortune, both in cold hard cash and in real damage to human health. Nowhere is this more pernicious than in children ...

America's hegemony is crumbling from within, a victim of what I call a“deficiency syndrome.” This isn't about foreign rivals; it's about a homegrown new“caste system,” crystallized by what ...

The skies were illuminated with blue and red lights, displaying the American flag, an image of Donald Trump, and the US map. The show hailed Trump, referring to him as a “historic President" and the ...