Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s first sex discrimination case came to her, improbably enough, from a man. The man who handed her the case was her husband, Martin Ginsburg; the gentleman she represented was a ...

In 1988, George H. W. Bush, deadlocked in a tight race for President against Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, ran an ad against Dukakis featuring Willie Horton. Horton, in prison for ...

Attorney General Jeff Sessions’s recent threat to pull grants from “sanctuary cities” should come as no surprise to those who spent any time listening to the rhetoric of then-candidate Donald Trump on ...

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Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century By George Packer • Knopf • 2019 • 608 pages • $30 George Packer’s captivating but not entirely convincing new biography, Our Man: Richard ...

Once upon a time, in the middle of the last century, America had a thriving economy in which the middle class was at the center and everyone—poor and rich alike—did better. But then, starting in the ...

“The denial or observance of [the right to bargain collectively] means the difference between despotism and democracy.” Senator Robert F. Wagner, speaking after the Supreme Court upheld the National ...

What’s in a name? Franklin Delano Roosevelt called himself a Christian, a Democrat, and a liberal. He did not call himself a democratic socialist, or any other kind of socialist. He was, in fact, no ...

This article draws on some ideas developed further in Practical Radicals: Seven Strategies to Change the World by Deepak Bhargava and Stephanie Luce (New Press, November 2023). How could it be that ...

The political story of the 2020s is half-written—two wildly unorthodox Trump Administrations bookending a single Biden term, all three breaking in significant ways from the bipartisan economic ...