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 ...

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 ...

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

Across the globe, scientists are speaking with one voice: We either dramatically reconstruct our economic life on a non-carbon basis, and we do so now, they say, or very soon we will face an ...

Shutdown: How COVID Shook the World’s Economy By Adam Tooze • Viking • 2021 • 368 pages • $24.99 It is a bold project to write the history of the coronavirus pandemic, given that it is far from over.

Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer’s Enduring Message to America By Keisha N. Blain • Beacon Press • 2021 • 322 pages • $27.95 Walk with Me: A Biography of Fannie Lou Hamer By Kate Clifford Larson • ...

The struggle between the United States and China is not a new Cold War. The two countries are geopolitical competitors, enmeshed in a zero-sum contest for influence globally, and especially in the ...

The central challenge of a democracy is power, and how to structure society such that people can govern themselves. For the last 40 years, we have seen unprecedented levels of concentration of power.

Political realignments occur in response to crises. The Whig/Jacksonian Democratic electoral system was broken up by irrepressible conflicts over slavery. The New Deal Coalition arose in response to ...

There is much to like about this proposed constitution, and in many ways, I believe it improves on the one we have. I therefore vote to endorse it. I admire both the proposed bill of rights and the ...