The Revolutionary Power of Taxation in American History by Vanessa S. Williamson • Basic Books • 2025 • 352 pages • $32 ...

Truman, American Jews, and the Origins of the Arab/Israeli Conflict.

In 2009, Congress provided funding for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the country’s telecom regulator, to develop a national broadband plan to “ensure that all people of the United ...

Capitalism Alone: The Future of the System that Rules the World by Branko Milanovic • Harvard University Press • 2019 • 304 pages • $29.95 In certain quarters of the United States it is taken for ...

For the past year and a half, the United States has been battling the COVID-19 pandemic along with the ensuing economic fallout. Now, Congress and the Biden-Harris Administration’s biggest task, along ...

With Congress gridlocked, hopes for progressive legislation has turned to state and local governments. True to form, the traditional leaders, California and New York, are considering landmark ...

While today’s America is fiercely divided over ideological differences, a notable exception is how both the Left and the Right buy into similar myths about U.S. social policy. This is particularly ...

Some of President Trump’s true believers may be “disarmed” by his Tele-Prompted condemnation of violence (“unequivocally,” no less) in an effort to escape Senate conviction on the House impeachment ...

The barbaric treatment of Haitian refugees by the U.S. government has exposed the incoherence of the Biden Administration’s approach to immigration and the racist roots of our immigration system. By ...

Regardless of who wins the election, the next President will be sworn in during an unprecedented set of national crises, taking office in the wake of the worst economic downturn since the Great ...

One of the most pressing challenges of American democracy, if not the most pressing challenge, is finding an appropriate method of allocating political power among an increasingly diverse—in terms of ...

“The denial or observance of [the right to bargain collectively] means the difference between despotism and democracy.” Senator Robert F. Wagner, speaking after the Supreme Court upheld the National ...