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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

Nearly three years after Donald Trump won the presidency, in part by promising a substantial boost for American workers, Democrats are still attempting to agree on an economic message to help them win ...

America is having a reform moment. According to Pew Research, hundreds of jurisdictions are adopting or considering “alternative” electoral systems. Several began doing so only in the past few years.

Photo by Bennett Honson via CC 2.0 . Progressives have lost power in Washington. Every national institution now lies in the hands of the Republican Party. Given the slim chances of Democrats’ winning ...

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 ...