If the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) already knows so much about our taxes, why does the process to file them have to be so ...

Veteran liberal journalist Robert Kuttner’s memoir recalls a time when prosperity really was shared—and reminds us how it ...

Yes, it was Reagan’s America in the 1980s. But progressives made surprising strides then that are worth remembering—and ...

Terrorism, he writes, “was not simply the unthinking product of a particular ideology but a tool that its users chose, often ...

The murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis in 2020 spurred a “racial reckoning”: a surge of interest not only in reforming policing, but also in challenging us to understand the role of race in our ...

Successful acceptance speeches at national party conventions accomplish two tasks: they lay out what is at stake in the forthcoming election in clear, unmistakable terms; and they do what is necessary ...

At the start of this school year, a picture of two young girls sitting outside a Taco Bell swept across the Internet. They were not headed to the restaurant for lunch. Instead, they were seen ...

Pundits talk a lot—a whole lot—about “preserving democracy” in the face of President Donald Trump’s rising authoritarianism. This is not the right call. Not because I disagree that American democracy ...

In 2016, a consortium of journalists exposed how a global elite including associates of Russian President Vladimir Putin, the King of Saudi Arabia, drug dealers, and others hid their wealth (legally ...

We’re learning a lot about how government can shape our lives by watching the second Trump Administration dismantle it. One lesson is that government’s capacity to do good runs on information no less ...

For several years the opioid crisis has been recognized as a major national catastrophe. Millions of people have become addicted to the new generation of opioid drugs. In many cases, this addiction ...

Pundits predicted doom for Democrats in the midterm elections. To say the least, they were wrong. Democrats held the Senate, and even populist candidates who lost, like Senate candidate Tim Ryan in ...