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 ...

Even some liberals toasted William F. Buckley Jr. as a patrician gentleman. A long-awaited new biography corrects that record ...

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

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 ...

Indeed, the recent era has been marked by growing firm concentration, with large firms earning the lion’s share of profits. McKinsey Global Institute calculates that the top 10 percent of the world’s ...

Given the slow growth in wages over the last several decades, especially for the bottom half of the U.S. labor market, progressives are right to call for a higher minimum wage. The current federal ...

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 ...

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 ...

Joe Biden greets potential voters during a campaign stop in South Carolina, May 4, 2019. In his first State of the Union speech, delivered in March 2022, President Joe Biden summed up his approach to ...

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.

Solar panels adorn the roof of my Colorado home. I helped build two large solar farms. I felt sure I was helping mitigate global warming, and it felt good! And as a happy additional benefit, ...