Arguments Ending Corporate America’s Coercive Contracts Our existing contractual legal regime allows corporations to further exploit their power over workers and consumers. But public policy can, and ...

is a book critic in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His latest book, Only a Voice: Essays, has just been published by Verso.

America is having a reform moment. According to Pew Research, hundreds of jurisdictions are adopting or considering “alternative” electoral systems. Several began doing so only in the past few years.

Every society must choose which goods and services—from education to roads to health care—to provide publicly and which to relegate to the realm of individual responsibility. Over the past five ...

How Biden’s fight against monopoly can guide his party to victory, and empower American to build a truly better future.

The current moment may seem like an odd time to herald a promising renewal of political leadership in the United States. In the presidential election, two men—one in his ninth decade, the other about ...

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 ...

On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court of the United States handed down a decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that explicitly stated that no constitutional right to abortion exists ...

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, ...

Symposium | For a Better Democracy: Proportional Representation Giving Minor Parties a Chance By Seth Masket from Fall 2023, No. 70 – 12 MIN READ Tagged political parties Proportional Representation ...

The Supreme Court is leading the conservative assault on federal administrative agencies—an important, if often hidden, aspect of the American government—in plain sight. Within the last 12 months ...

A recent ChatGPT query of “What are the five most common words used to describe politicians?” yielded the following results, in order: corrupt, opportunistic, charismatic, manipulative, and ...