Experiments across the world have tried to remove politicians themselves from decision-making. And they’ve worked—well, kind ...

In early 2018, Larry Kramer, the dean of Stanford Law School and the president of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, which held assets of about $10 billion and disbursed around $400 million a ...

As with everything else, Donald Trump is pushing the pardon process to the breaking point. Can it be salvaged?

Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America By Beth Macy • Little, Brown and Company • 2018 • 384 pages • $28 All tragedies have heroes. Obvious heroes, complicated heroes, ...

The health care system in the United States is in crisis. Drastic cuts to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act threaten the ...

In 1996, President Clinton campaigned on the promise of putting thousands of new police officers on the street. Looking back, ...

The United States government has in fact recompensed injured groups in the past. So why won’t it do it for Black Americans?

Senator Harry Reid leans on a stack of documents pertaining to campaign finance reform during a Capitol Hill news conference ...

President and CEO of NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council).

To unleash America’s energy potential, we need reforms that are different, and go far deeper, than the permitting proposals ...

Truman, American Jews, and the Origins of the Arab/Israeli Conflict.

American Covenant: How the Constitution Unified Our Nation—and Could Again by Yuval Levin • Basic Books • 2024 • 352 pages • $32 No Democracy Lasts Forever: How the Constitution Threatens the United ...