For 70 years, irrational fear of low-level radiation blocked the path to an energy-rich future. We must get over it.

Venrock, the venture capital arm of the Rockefeller family’s efforts. In his earlier career he was a professional nuclear engineer.

This article draws on some ideas developed further in Practical Radicals: Seven Strategies to Change the World by Deepak Bhargava and Stephanie Luce (New Press, November 2023). How could it be that ...

Once upon a time, in the middle of the last century, America had a thriving economy in which the middle class was at the center and everyone—poor and rich alike—did better. But then, starting in the ...

In the lead-up to the 2022 midterm elections, President Biden attempted to frame our nation’s central political conflict as a battle between democracy and MAGA-style authoritarianism. “Donald Trump ...

In November 2021, then-Governor Charlie Baker of Massachusetts, a Republican, signed into law new congressional maps that would, as before, give Democrats all nine of the state’s House seats—despite ...

Why the Democrats Are Blue: How Secular Liberals Hijacked the People’s Party By Mark Stricherz • Encounter Books • 2007 • 350 pages • $29.95 The Liberals’ Moment: The McGovern Insurgency and the ...

Nancy Reynolds looks like no one’s idea of a revolutionary, least of all her own. She has a quick and contagious smile, shiny coiffed hair, a bad knee, and four grandchildren. Heartbroken after the ...

Is the culture war over? That seems an absurd question. This is an age when Confederate monuments still stand; when white privilege denialism is surging on social media; when legislators and educators ...

Just two years ago, this would have been an extraordinarily radical essay. Its premise is that court-packing—increasing the number of seats on the Supreme Court to change its ideological makeup—is, in ...

Despite the controversy over their very existence, there isn’t much disagreement over how charter schools came to be. For over 25 years, charter supporters and opponents alike have settled on a ...

Though this is not the way I would usually describe my career, one way of looking at it is that I spent my first 20 working years trying to raise money, and the next 15 trying to give it away. The ...