A recurring theme in policy circles over the last three decades has been that young people should blame their economic ...

The most insidious privatization of the 21st century isn’t material—it’s moral. The right to define “goodness”, once born of ...

If you've been following the federal courts’ scattershot decisions on Trump's domestic troop movements, you may feel a bit spun around. One week democracy ...

The human condition includes a vast array of unavoidable misfortunes. But what about the preventable ones? Shouldn’t the United States provide for the basic needs of its people? Such questions get ...

When the U.S. Federal Trade Commission announced it had settled its “dark patterns” lawsuit against Amazon last month, leaders at the antitrust and ...

Since the start of September, the Trump administration has busied itself with striking boats in international waters stemming from Venezuelan and possibly ...

Both the Israeli and the American governments insist that the "Trump peace plan" requires the complete disarmament of Hamas, which, with an estimated ...

Ghiat’s excellent book, Strongmen, Mussolini to the Present, is that there is a playbook pursuant to which all authoritarians ...

I am rarely surprised by anything Trump says anymore. There is no lie too transparent to stop him—remember “sunny”when it was overcast? Or his absurdly ...

The flood of angry —and justified— reactions to this year’s Nobel Peace Prize laureate, María Corina Machado, reveals less about the committee’s decision ...

I’m not an expert in assessing crowd density, but a half hour before the scheduled No Kings demonstration in Great Barrington ...

Since there is a lot of confusion surrounding the shutdown, I thought it would be useful to go over some of the main points as I understand them. I will ...