The historic labor act faces unprecedented assaults in the Trump era. Here’s what that means for our democracy.

For more than a decade, American democracy has been in a steep decline. We have known for a long time that our democracy has become more polarized and dysfunctional since the slash and burn politics ...

Cohn served as chief counsel to Joseph McCarthy in the early 1950s, when the Wisconsin senator was riding roughshod over the ...

There are only 7 percent of the [federal] workforce under the age of 30.” Stier’s group is trying to increase young people’s awareness of the opportunities government offers for “making a difference.” ...

A Journal of Ideas. Arguments Don't Mourn Regulatory Independence Donald Trump has seized control over previously “independent” federal regulators.

Hamilton College. His most recent book is Reds: The Tragedy of American Communism (Basic Books, 2024).

Photo by Jamelle Bouie. In one of the final issues of National Journal, John Judis wrote a characteristically thoughtful and historically minded explanation of the stunning support among Republicans ...

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 ...

How could it be that the largest-ever recorded drop in childhood poverty had next to no political resonance? One of us became intrigued by this question when he walked into a graduate class one ...

Shelby County, therefore, neutered the section of the Voting Rights Act requiring states with a history of racial voter suppression to “preclear” new voting laws with officials in Washington, D.C.

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 ...

In the earliest days of the coronavirus pandemic, the media promoted a tidy narrative that the virus didn’t discriminate and that economic status and location would not protect us from infection. Yet ...