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

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

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

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

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

Industrial policy has traditionally been conceived of as a strategic tool that nations use to gain “market share” in the context of international trade. Over the last five decades or so, the focus of ...

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

At the start of this school year, a picture of two young girls sitting outside a Taco Bell swept across the Internet. They were not headed to the restaurant for lunch. Instead, they were seen ...

We’ve become accustomed, watching the Democratic debates, to hearing the moderators focus on the practicability of candidates’ plans to move to Medicare for All, reform immigration policy, and fight ...

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 ...

The Court at War: FDR, His Justices, and the World They Made by Cliff Sloan • PublicAffairs • 2023 • 512 pages • $32.50 The years of World War II represent the most paradoxical era in the history of ...

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, ...