MAGA political energy across the country, and yet the most recent Quinnipiac University poll found that 53 percent of ...

August 16, 2021. The United States has never been “a nation of immigrants.” It has always been a settler state with a core of descendants from the original colonial settlers, that is, primarily ...

May 22, 2025. Abundance Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson Avid Reader Press, $30 (cloth) In their new book, Abundance, Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson argue that American liberals have ironically succumbed ...

If the Ayotzinapa case goes unpunished, there will never be a commitment from the state to resolve the broader issue.

November 18, 2020 “Call me Caitlyn.” With this phrase, emblazoned on Vanity Fair’s June 2015 cover, Caitlyn Jenner revealed her transgender identity to the world.But these words were not only a ...

For me the suit represents what we owe African Americans: the hope of equal protection under the law and a concrete tool for it. It goes without saying that we also owe them our very existence in ...

May 23, 2019. When Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar was attacked in March for “invoking the anti-Semitic trope of ‘dual loyalty’” in her criticisms of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee ...

In light of the apparent failure of the deficit model, alternative approaches to science communication have flourished over the last two decades, inspired by the idea that addressing anti-science ...

April 13, 2023. This essay appears in print in Is Equal Opportunity Enough?.. In June 2020 Donald Trump tweeted, in characteristically hyperbolic style, that his administration had “done more for the ...

The U.S.S.R’s defectors and escapees had helped shape U.S. definitions of freedom since the onset of the Cold War, but Solzhenitsyn was unique. Born the year after the October Revolution into a ...

During the 1970s and ’80s, a group led by Stanford polymath Patrick Suppes undermined the popular idea of science as a unified whole. In the wake of this work, talk of science in the singular gave way ...

How Not to Do Industrial Policy. Instead of pouring public funds into private industry—as the U.S. did with COVID-19 vaccines—we must build public capacity and prioritize public objectives.