It isn’t gerrymandering. It’s the existence of single-member districts in the first place. It was never designed to help ...

As we anticipate a new presidential Administration, all of us are looking forward to the future and thinking about the possibilities ahead. Among the many topics that must be addressed, one of the ...

Amid the recent flurry of radical executive orders, one in particular has flown under the radar: President Trump has seized control over regulators like the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and ...

Plastic Capitalism: Banks, Credit Cards, and the End of Financial Control by Sean H. Vanatta • Yale University Press • 2024 • 416 pages • $35 Credit cards hold a disproportionately large place in the ...

With the pending battle over the debt ceiling, we are once again hearing concerns about the magnitude of our national budget deficit and the seemingly overwhelming size of our national debt. Given ...

In November 2021, then-Governor Charlie Baker of Massachusetts, a Republican, signed into law new congressional maps that would, as before, give Democrats all nine of the state’s House seats—despite ...

Serenity Towers Apartments in Memphis, Tennessee, is a senior living facility subsidized by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and managed by Millennia Housing Management, an LLC ...

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 ...

Elon Musk is on a personal crusade to increase the American birth rate, including his own siring of 11 children with three different women. In part from a similar concern, Vice President-elect J.D.

The Supermajority: How the Supreme Court Divided America by Michael Waldman • Simon & Schuster • 2023 • 400 pages • $30 “Every day the [Supreme] Court’s power grab pushes us closer to a crisis, a ...

Even as COVID-19 pandemic raged across the world, the number of people forcibly displaced in 2020 reached the highest level ever recorded as ongoing and new conflicts forced people to flee their homes ...

The environmental organization I lead was born out of a desire for change—revolutionary change at the time—to the reality that people were living in 1970. To make tap water safe to drink and air safe ...