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Until the late 1970s, a rough balance of power existed between democracy and capitalism. Can today’s capitalists be more like yesterday’s?
One big problem with the multitrillion-dollar Biden investments was that most of the money was filtered through antiquated ...
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.” ...
Book Reviews A Tale of Two Capitalisms Will capitalism survive today’s extremes of inequality? And if so, which capitalism will it be? By Arthur Goldhammer from Spring 2020, No. 56 – 13 MIN READ ...
In an era when sweeping demographic change has created a racial, economic, cultural, and political chasm between the generations, that old Groucho Marx riddle illuminates a paradox about America’s 74 ...
The historic labor act faces unprecedented assaults in the Trump era. Here’s what that means for our democracy.
Blue states have the power to change liberalism and block conservatism. They just have to use it.
President Joe Biden stated at his first presidential press conference in March 2021 that democracy is in a “battle” with autocracy for the future. He continued, “We’ve got to prove democracy works.” A ...
For nearly 50 years, Ruth Bader Ginsburg has done more than anyone to build the legal framework for women’s equality.
“The new American fascism is more a political pathology than a political program,” Stewart writes in her introduction. But I would argue that the “new American fascism” is hardly new at all: It’s the ...
The Empire State Building, then the world’s tallest building at 102 stories, was completed in 1931. Building that majestic structure, later called one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World by the ...
Did the Biden Administration’s departure from decades of economic policymaking consensus create the conditions that so inflamed the electorate against progressives? Or were high growth, low ...