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 ...

Starting with the 1960s War on Poverty, job training programs—now called “workforce development”—were deployed to improve the skills of poor youth and adults and help them find employment. After a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A steady drip of claims that next Tuesday’s election is at risk of rigging, and explicit calls by some far-right actors to their supporters to show up at polling places, have raised the specter 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.