Nearly every Democrat running for statewide office this cycle will propose some type of “free” college plan. Those plans need to be well thought-out and, in particular, recognize the relationship ...

On December 6, President Donald J. Trump sat in the Oval Office at the Resolute desk, surrounded by Dominionist worship leaders who laid their hands on him and commenced to pray. While most in the ...

The privilege against self-incrimination was initially developed in English law, and was well established by the end of the seventeenth century. In the United States, the Fifth Amendment provides this ...

Since Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Democratic primary victory in New York’s 14th Congressional District, the question of how to pay for ambitious progressive programs such as universal health care and a ...

Globalization has not been doing so well lately. Since the 2008 financial crisis, the idea that unfettered free markets bring unadulterated benefits to society has lost its sheen. Trump’s election ...

Global warming threatens every American. Fossil fuel pollution worsens hurricanes on the Gulf, blizzards in the Northeast, and wildfires in the West. It deepens the floods in our cities and lengthens ...

With a casino developer and omnivorous self-marketer ripping through the political process and the protocols of republican deliberation, you might think that someone would have noted that our polity’s ...

It was the spring of 2018, and our small but relentless posse of pro-immigration reform House Republicans had had enough. Throughout the entire 115th Congress, we had asked Speaker Paul Ryan and other ...

Despite the 2010 passage by the most recent Democratic Administration of a radical upheaval of the existing health-care system, the issue of reform is back at the forefront of debate this Democratic ...

Key to the upcoming Republican tax plan is more than obvious: Both the congressional and the Senate versions passed so far benefit the wealthy, period. Both versions benefit large corporations, period ...

Maybe the only silver lining of the 2008 financial crisis was its prompting of much-needed congressional action to make the financial system safer and fairer, ultimately resulting in the passage of ...

The co-author of an important new book talks about her research, the current crisis, and whether we can turn it into an opportunity.