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Every think tank, aside from the few that maintain an allegiance to the current Administration, now faces a test: How do they ...
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.
In the fall of 2018, University of California, Berkeley economist Emmanuel Saez said, to an audience of economists, policymakers, and the press, “If the data don’t fit the theory, change the theory.” ...
American democracy is under direct threat today, and that threat must be vanquished. But in the longer term, we also need to think about ways to make democracy in the United States more representative ...
It is past time we rediscover the lost art of leisure. Doing so, however, will also mean teaching people how to find fulfillment in their free time.
Once upon a time in southwest Virginia, coal barons took the region’s wealth. Now, opioids sap its will.
The historic labor act faces unprecedented assaults in the Trump era. Here’s what that means for our democracy.
China’s authoritarian model presents a new and challenging set of risks to the United States and the current international system. Over the past decade, the Chinese leadership has shifted from simply ...
Arguments The American Left is a Historical Success Story Our fascination with the recent history of the right comes at a cost: too little attention to the left’s successes over the past 20 years. By ...
America’s leading institutions have a problem. Many of them made commitments to reckon with systemic racism in the wake of George Floyd’s on-camera murder, but their own diversity data revealed they ...
Symposium | Democracy and Technology: Allies or Enemies? Tech’s Risks on Non-English Platforms By Samuel Woolley from Spring 2023, No. 68 – 12 MIN READ Tagged Internet Social Media ...
The United States is witnessing another vigorous debate over its immigration and border security policies. Many aspects of this debate are now familiar, even tired. Who should be a priority for ...