America faces enormous challenges at home and abroad that our political system is ill-prepared to handle. Mired in compounding health, economic, and social crises arising from the coronavirus pandemic ...

The Inflation Reduction Act, popularly called the IRA, turned one on August 16. As a result of the law, the federal government may spend, over the next decade, nearly $1 trillion to support ...

Financial markets have had one of the most tumultuous winters in more than a decade. Last November, we witnessed the collapse of FTX, once seen as the model for relatively safe crypto businesses.

When we think about economic growth, we generally think about inventions and technology—from the combustion engine to the iPhone—and about the effects of capital accumulation, like big dams or ...

The New Inquiry recently published a full-throated defense of the loose affiliation we now call Antifa (short for anti-fascist). Images of street-fighting from Berkeley and the violent confrontations ...

President Trump’s Office of Management and Budget has proposed a 14.1 percent cut in funding for the Internal Revenue Service. If made permanent, we conservatively estimate that this cut will cost the ...

The interim National Security Strategic Guidance (NSSG) issued by the Biden Administration in early March 2021 articulated a central role for democracy and democratic values in guiding and shaping ...

The longstanding question of whether police are racially biased was put front and center by the events in Ferguson, Missouri in August 2014—and, more recently, by those in Baton Rouge and Falcon ...

While today’s America is fiercely divided over ideological differences, a notable exception is how both the Left and the Right buy into similar myths about U.S. social policy. This is particularly ...

Trumpian ethno-nationalism was probably the loudest political story of the past year, but in the long run it will probably not turn out to be the most important. The simmering, hazily defined anger ...

My idea is for an organization that will defend government. On its face, that may sound so simple and fundamental as to be unnecessary, like an art critic making the case for abstraction or a ...

Veterans of the EPA knew it would face unprecedented attacks under Donald Trump. We banded together and did something about it.