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 ...

Photo by Ishikawa Ken via CC 2.0. The current economic recession is fast stripping away any illusions that the American social safety is close to being adequate. Without the new aid being distributed ...

Photo by Prachatai via CC 2.0 -- President Duterte holds up a diagram showing the connections between high level drug syndicates during a press conference on July 7, 2016.. On a rainy Tuesday ...

This Sunday, September 30, Democracy board member and frequent contributor Nick Hanauer will receive the 2018 Harvard and MIT Humanist of the Year award in Cambridge, Massachusetts.Here, we asked Greg ...

We must approach the world’s most populous country with an eye to its wide variation and profound contradictions. This is true of China’s changing role on the world stage—its trade policies, military ...

Donald Trump is the ultimate unilateralist, and not a particularly talented one. He undermines and demeans close allies. He pulls out of treaties and international accords designed to advance our own ...

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 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 ...

Barack Obama takes office after eight years of a disastrous administration. Two bungled wars, a record-setting deficit, a near-economic collapse, and a government that isn' t trusted at home or abroad ...