It’s not easy to be optimistic if you’re on the left side of the American political debate these days. Donald Trump is back as President, with a compliant, Republican-majority Congress ready to do his ...

The ideological dimension of U.S. geopolitical competition with China has become unmistakable. Not only the United States, but other allies including those in Europe now use terms such as “systemic ...

“I remember the day that they started spraying hog waste on us. It was a Saturday in the mid-1990s . . . . Just as I was thinking to myself that there was no way that he would begin spraying waste so ...

Who Is Government?: The Untold Story of Public Service edited by Michael Lewis • Riverhead Books • 2025 • 243 pages • $30 The profiles are now collected in a new book under the title Who Is Government ...

In a recent lawsuit, Noelle Dunphy alleges that her former employer, Rudolph Giuliani, offered himself as an intermediary in a scheme to buy presidential pardons. In the words of the complaint, ...

The privilege against self-incrimination was initially developed in English law, and was well established by the end of the seventeenth century. In the United States, the Fifth Amendment provides this ...

Proposals for constitutional reform are afoot in ways that I have not seen in my lifetime. All of this activity reflects a fear: the age of Trump, with its relentless populist assault, and its rule-by ...

Every week, policymakers, economists, business, and labor leaders anxiously await the release of the latest unemployment data, one of the most widely used indicators of the country’s economic health ...

President Joe Biden and his team have repeatedly declared that “America is back.” The rest of the world is not so sure. Washington would promote multilateralism and champion democracy; American ...

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 ...

Will Marshall and I certainly agree on one point: Bill Clinton’s economic policies “were more progressive than he gets credit for.” I’d emphasize that many of those policy initiatives ended in failure ...

The political story of the 2020s is half-written—two wildly unorthodox Trump Administrations bookending a single Biden term, all three breaking in significant ways from the bipartisan economic ...