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 ...

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

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Despite the controversy over their very existence, there isn’t much disagreement over how charter schools came to be. For over 25 years, charter supporters and opponents alike have settled on a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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.

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 ...