China’s authoritarian model presents a new and challenging set of risks to the United States and the current international system. Over the past decade, the Chinese leadership has shifted from simply ...

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 ...

It is hard not to be depressed watching our political system at work. Red and blue Americans are not only moving further apart on social, cultural, and economic priorities, but have even convinced ...

The November 2020 presidential election marked a moment of real optimism for those looking for a politics beyond neoliberalism. Democrats, buffeted by four years of the Trump Administration and facing ...

To judge from the Republican primary campaign as it played out over late 2015 and early 2016, the United States is a pitiful giant in decline, outmaneuvered by Russia and China and besieged by ...

The positive history of the United States—the history of our progress toward creating that “more perfect union” the delegates to the Constitutional Convention invoked in 1787—can be told in three ...

Seventy-seven years ago, the founders of the Mont Pelerin Society laid out a stark landscape. “The central values of civilization are in danger,” wrote the newly formed group of neoliberal thinkers.

A young woman in Iran sends a video to a journalist waiting safely outside the country. The grainy clip shows a student being beaten by Iranian authorities—one of countless episodes in the violent ...

There is a growing belief on the left that American criminal adjudication is so grossly unjust that its institutions ought to be abolished. Under this line of thinking, police, jails, prisons, and the ...

The Biden Administration spent much of 2023 making the case for its industrial policies. In speech after speech, senior Administration officials argued for the economic virtues of what they would ...

Shutdown: How COVID Shook the World’s Economy By Adam Tooze • Viking • 2021 • 368 pages • $24.99 It is a bold project to write the history of the coronavirus pandemic, given that it is far from over.

This current moment is not the first time the United States has been divided. The 1960s, the Industrial Revolution, and of course the Civil War are just a few examples of periods of sharp clashes. Yet ...