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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Or at least no one we needed to persuade. We told them Donald Trump represented an existential threat. We told them the Supreme Court had removed guardrails that existed in his first term. We told ...

Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller • Scribner • 2022 • 464 pages • $30 But what if this superstructural interpretation is incomplete? What if it blinds us to ...

The current moment may seem like an odd time to herald a promising renewal of political leadership in the United States. In the presidential election, two men—one in his ninth decade, the other about ...

A Monetary and Fiscal History of the United States, 1961-2021 by Alan S. Blinder • Princeton University Press • 2022 • 432 pages • $39.95 It’s hard to imagine a better moment for Alan Blinder’s new ...

“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 ...

Much of the debate around the rights of students to protest and of universities to enforce rules of conduct has become repetitive and frustrating. The well-worn arguments over who ought to be ...

Foreign Agents: How American Lobbyists and Lawmakers Threaten Democracy Around the World by Casey Michel • St. Martin’s Press • 2024 • 368 pages • $30 When I came to Washington, D.C. as a reporter in ...