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 ...

The income tax is a landmark progressive innovation of the last century, and it is under attack from multiple sides.

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

Not because I disagree that American democracy is under assault and we need to take action, but because there’s a world of ...

Last year’s giant tax bill established something unprecedented in the history of the income tax, which sounds dryly technical ...

The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) may be the most powerful source of state capacity across the 50 states, employing over 1,400 people and overseeing the electricity, natural gas, water ...

I hear that question a lot from Delawareans—nurses and cops, dental hygienists and mechanics. I also heard it plenty in 2024 as I campaigned for Kamala Harris and Senate Democrats. Elected ...

Why the Democrats Are Blue: How Secular Liberals Hijacked the People’s Party By Mark Stricherz • Encounter Books • 2007 • 350 pages • $29.95 The Liberals’ Moment: The McGovern Insurgency and the ...

Polarized by Degrees: How the Diploma Divide and the Culture War Transformed American Politics by Matt Grossmann and David A. Hopkins • Cambridge University Press • 2024 • 398 pages • $30 Picture a ...

In November 2021, then-Governor Charlie Baker of Massachusetts, a Republican, signed into law new congressional maps that would, as before, give Democrats all nine of the state’s House seats—despite ...