Even when there were figures who almost fit that role—like Thurgood Marshall or Ruth Bader Ginsburg—they couldn’t keep ...

An interview with Osita Nwanevu, author of The Right of the People: Democracy and the Case for a New American Founding.

Matt and Sam talk with Daniel Martinez HoSang about the gains the GOP and Trump are making with racial minorities.

Because of its magnitude, the climate crisis can appear as the sum total of all environmental problems. But halting greenhouse gas emissions is a specific problem, the most pressing subset of the ...

Since the end of the Confederacy, the cult of the “taxpayer” has provided a socially acceptable veneer for racist attacks on democracy.

A quarter-century ago, the multilateral system of global economic governance had reached its pinnacle. Today, the WTO, the IMF, and the World Bank are experiencing a deep crisis of legitimacy.

The risks of calling on politicians to push back against the court must be weighed against the present reality of a malign judicial dictatorship.

Melvin L. Rogers July 31, 2015 Ta-Nehisi Coates speaking in January (Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, Univ. of Michigan) Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me often seems like a ...

The core analytic framework for economists on the left has not changed in nearly a century. We need a new paradigm to make sense of the world we inhabit.

After decades of relative stagnation, American housing policy is now several years into a period of radical change and experimentation. In California, where I am policy director for the state-level ...

Today, inequality—especially racial inequality—is not only produced through the job market but through people’s ability to hustle.

The RICO indictment against Stop Cop City opens with a rambling, historically illiterate passage in which the state attempts to define its political enemy. Anarchism is an “anti-authority” philosophy, ...