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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

After striving for months to overcome Senate obstruction, climate activists have good reason to tenaciously fight onward for Build Back Better Act (BBBA) priorities. Their eyes fixate on the prize: ...

Nina Jankowicz is a researcher specializing in state-sponsored disinformation and gendered online abuse. In April 2021, the Biden Administration tapped Jankowicz to lead a new group in the Department ...

“Productivism” has arrived. Economist Dani Rodrik recently declared “a major re-orientation” toward an economics “that is rooted in production, work, and localism instead of finance, consumerism, and ...

When Frances Haugen revealed herself in 2021 to be the Facebook whistleblower who had disclosed thousands of internal company documents to The Wall Street Journal and the Securities and Exchange ...

Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein • Farrar, Straus and Giroux • 2023 • 416 pages • $30 Long before everyone else figured it out, feminists knew that Naomi Wolf had wandered ...

Since taking office, President Joe Biden has often warned of a worldwide struggle between democracy and authoritarianism. He told the Munich Security Conference in February: “We’re at an inflection ...