The Revolutionary Power of Taxation in American History by Vanessa S. Williamson • Basic Books • 2025 • 352 pages • $32 ...

For the past year and a half, the United States has been battling the COVID-19 pandemic along with the ensuing economic fallout. Now, Congress and the Biden-Harris Administration’s biggest task, along ...

Capitalism Alone: The Future of the System that Rules the World by Branko Milanovic • Harvard University Press • 2019 • 304 pages • $29.95 In certain quarters of the United States it is taken for ...

Stating the obvious: Ours is a government (and thus a society) in crisis. All three branches of our federal government are led by men who do not believe in pluralism. Compromise is for the weak; ...

America has a billionaire problem. When just 300,000 households control $40 trillion, more than five times what the federal government spent last year, the result is the systematic purchase of our ...

At the start of this school year, a picture of two young girls sitting outside a Taco Bell swept across the Internet. They were not headed to the restaurant for lunch. Instead, they were seen ...

Stable, consolidated democracies are defined, in large part, by the durability of their formal institutions. Citizens, elected officials, and political parties engage in politics expecting democratic ...

Are democracy and capitalism compatible? Or, to put it differently: What made democracy and capitalism compatible for decades, even centuries, and what strains this relationship today? The end of the ...

In the fall of 2018, University of California, Berkeley economist Emmanuel Saez said, to an audience of economists, policymakers, and the press, “If the data don’t fit the theory, change the theory.” ...

When we think about economic growth, we generally think about inventions and technology—from the combustion engine to the iPhone—and about the effects of capital accumulation, like big dams or ...

American democracy is under direct threat today, and that threat must be vanquished. But in the longer term, we also need to think about ways to make democracy in the United States more representative ...

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 ...