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 ...

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

Donald Trump has seized control over previously “independent” federal regulators. That’s problematic—but Democrats should resist the urge to revert to the way things were. Sign up for our print ...

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The Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, planned by Robert Moses, ripped through many poorer neighborhoods, cutting them off from better-off areas. While much important attention has been placed on the history ...

As the Democratic primary heats up, what is particularly notable is how little the progressive debate is centered around Donald Trump, and how much it is revolving, instead, around big ideas and moral ...

The interim National Security Strategic Guidance (NSSG) issued by the Biden Administration in early March 2021 articulated a central role for democracy and democratic values in guiding and shaping ...

Arguments Who’ll Stand for Democracy? As the United States and China hurtle toward Cold War, our next President must take a stand for our most enduring value.

is director of the Carolyn T. and Robert M. Rogers Center for the American Presidency and associate professor of history at Vanderbilt University. She is the author most recently of Partisans: The ...

In 2011, when I was interviewing to be an intern at this journal, I was asked what authors and publications I read. I listed a couple of newspapers and progressive magazines, but, wanting to seem open ...