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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...