Lanchester sees statistics as a product of the same Enlightenment that gave birth to the United States—“numbers created by the state to help it understand itself and ultimately to govern itself.” And ...

Abundance also requires a full reimagining of public and private investment in things like housing, clean energy development, and modernized transportation networks—areas where current market and ...

H.A. Smith (extreme left) and Rep. J. Parnell Thomas (right center) stand with hands upraised on October 20, 1947, as Smith, ...

Donald Trump has seized control over previously “independent” federal regulators. That’s problematic—but Democrats should resist the urge to revert to the way things were. Sign up for our print ...

Next, American Affairs, a quarterly journal created by Trump-sympathetic intellectuals.It’s gotten a pleasant gloss from the mainstream media coverage, like the Times saying it gives “intellectual ...

The headquarters of the Securities and Exchange Commission, via Shutterstock. Amid the recent flurry of radical executive orders, one in particular has flown under the radar: President Trump has ...

is an associate professor of business law at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business. He was previously an attorney at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors.

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 ...

is a columnist for MSNBC and Heatmap and the author of “The Cross Section,” a newsletter about politics, media, and culture. His most recent book is White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy ...

is the author of nine books, including Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism, The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court, and The Oath: The Obama White House and ...