“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” —James Baldwin in No Name in the Street The COVID-19 pandemic is a historic public health disaster that has ...

Presidential Chair and Professor of History, Emerita at the University of New Hampshire. She is the author of several books on modern American history, including The Highest Glass Ceiling: Women’s ...

Over the last four years, progressives have looked on with dismay as the Trump Administration eviscerated key regulations that protected clean air and clean water, fair wages and safety and health on ...

Yes, AI will kill some jobs. But it will also create new ones. We need policies that will help workers adjust.

A look inside the resurgent labor movement, from the inspiring moments to the mundane work that must be done every day.

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The Biden Administration's support for the TRIPS waiver is a huge victory for people over profits. Yet there is much work left to get COVID vaccines to all. Here's what needs to come next.

Imagine a not-too-distant future where every decision made by elected officials begins with the question “What is best for the country?” The question seems like it should be an obvious one for any ...

I came of age with the Internet as we see it today. I spent hours surfing the early web, visited Yahoo when it was just Jerry Yang’s page of bookmarks, and experienced the almost miraculous search ...

With the end of the Cold War, a wave of optimism emerged that authoritarian and totalitarian regimes would soon give way to democratic ones. United States foreign policy sought to encourage that trend ...

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 ...

As President-elect Biden’s team prepares a plan to get the country back on our feet from COVID’s debilitating blow, he and his team will be considering a raft of economic proposals. But how should ...