The ultra-wealthy’s dominant power in our political system forces the question: Should America limit billionaire fortunes? A ...

Policymakers from across the political spectrum are endorsing the abundance agenda, with voices ranging from Jared Polis to ...

We can’t just return to the status quo ante. Paradoxically, we’ll need a federal government with both more power and less.

Vice President of Policy Development at the Progressive Policy Institute and the Director of PPI’s Center for Funding America’s Future.

Last month, Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced that, for the first time in 50 years, the U.S. Department of Justice will not be able to send federal observers to the polls on Election Day this ...

In the last few years, the Supreme Court and lower federal courts have shown a new hostility toward laws that regulate the economy and try to limit the effects of economic power. They have declared a ...

Once again, the American labor movement is giving the strongest possible support to the Democratic candidate for the White House. For decades, Democrats have relied on labor unions for funding and for ...

Just Giving: Why Philanthropy Is Failing Democracy and How It Can Do Better by Rob Reich • Princeton University Press • 2018 • 256 Pages • $27.95 To say that the very wealthy exert disproportionate, ...

America’s leading institutions have a problem. Many of them made commitments to reckon with systemic racism in the wake of George Floyd’s on-camera murder, but their own diversity data revealed they ...

The West is living through an economic and social crisis so unprecedented in its tempo, so complex in its effects…the contemporary crisis is more radical than the Great Depression of the thirties or ...

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 Supermajority: How the Supreme Court Divided America by Michael Waldman • Simon & Schuster • 2023 • 400 pages • $30 “Every day the [Supreme] Court’s power grab pushes us closer to a crisis, a ...