President Joe Biden and his team have repeatedly declared that “America is back.” The rest of the world is not so sure. Washington would promote multilateralism and champion democracy; American ...

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.

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 ...

Eleanor Roosevelt: The War Years and After; Volume Three, 1939-1962 by Blanche Wiesen Cook • Viking • 2016 • 688 pages • $40 Her biographer calls her the “most controversial First Lady in United ...

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 ...

In his 1979 book, The Question of Palestine, the academic, literary critic, and Palestinian-American activist Edward Said observed of Palestine that “[O]ne of the features of a small non-European ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...