Lanchester sees statistics as a product of the same Enlightenment that gave birth to the United States—“numbers created by the state to help it understand itself and ultimately to govern itself.” And ...

Abundance also requires a full reimagining of public and private investment in things like housing, clean energy development, and modernized transportation networks—areas where current market and ...

H.A. Smith (extreme left) and Rep. J. Parnell Thomas (right center) stand with hands upraised on October 20, 1947, as Smith, ...

It is important to recognize that Biden built on the work of other Democrats. They include Senator Elizabeth Warren, who in June 2016 famously delivered the first major speech by a policymaker on ...

Michael Harrington, second from left, with Ruth Messinger, Gloria Steinem, and Ted Kennedy. The West is living through an economic and social crisis so unprecedented in its tempo, so complex in its ...

Nearly three years after Donald Trump won the presidency, in part by promising a substantial boost for American workers, Democrats are still attempting to agree on an economic message to help them win ...

How could it be that the largest-ever recorded drop in childhood poverty had next to no political resonance? One of us became intrigued by this question when he walked into a graduate class one ...

Shelby County, therefore, neutered the section of the Voting Rights Act requiring states with a history of racial voter suppression to “preclear” new voting laws with officials in Washington, D.C.

On Election Day 2016, hundreds flocked to Susan B. Anthony’s gravesite in Rochester, New York to place their “I Voted” stickers on her tombstone. Video from the day shows a steady stream of visitors, ...

Photo by Bennett Honson via CC 2.0 . Progressives have lost power in Washington. Every national institution now lies in the hands of the Republican Party. Given the slim chances of Democrats’ winning ...

In order to become a naturalized citizen of the United States, until recently you had to answer this question: “What is the most important right granted to U.S. citizens?” The correct answer, ...