Monetary Policy as if Democracy Matters, Downey asks us to consider how Congress might channel the will of the people to make ...

Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy by Katherine Stewart • Bloomsbury Publishing • 2025 • 352 pages • $30 In ...

Dunkelman • PublicAffairs • 2025 • 416 pages • $32.50 Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson • Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster • 2025 • 304 pages • $30 The Empire State Building, then the world ...

The pitchforks are out. The question is: Whose heads belong on the forks? One reason for the intense anger and thirst for revanchism in our society may be the sustained growth of economic inequality ...

There was some debate after the election last year about whether it was, or was not, a “wipeout.” I argue that regardless of whether it was or wasn’t, Democrats must behave as if it was. If the party ...

Starting in the late 1880s with the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC), Congress established “independent agencies” outside the executive branch. By one count, there are about 40 such agencies in ...

Like so many others, I knocked on a lot of doors this fall—each day my worry growing that the Democrats might come up short. In a trailer park in southern Pennsylvania, two white women seethed about ...

A year ago at this time we were all flying high, eagerly preparing to meet the challenges of “the middle-out moment.” Then came November’s brutal election. But while our spirits may have crashed, the ...

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