In moments of crisis, it’s easy to think that capitalism is finished. But never forget the system’s formidable ability to ...

The Court was the last real line of defense for the right to access abortion in this country. With Kavanaugh’s confirmation, ...

Richard Rothstein’s history of the racist housing policies of governments—yes, even liberal ones—is searing, revealing, and embarrassing.

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“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 ...

is a staff writer at The New Republic and author of The Great Divergence: America’s Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do About It (Bloomsbury, 2012).

For decades, we’ve been told markets will free us. Now, finally, we’re realizing we need freedom from the market’s worst ravages.

In an era when sweeping demographic change has created a racial, economic, cultural, and political chasm between the generations, that old Groucho Marx riddle illuminates a paradox about America’s 74 ...

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The 1896 Democratic Convention, where William Jennings Bryan was nominated as the Democratic presidential nominee. Why don’t Democrats, rather than Republicans, call themselves the “Grand Old Party”?

For more than a decade, American democracy has been in a steep decline. We have known for a long time that our democracy has become more polarized and dysfunctional since the slash and burn politics ...