If the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) already knows so much about our taxes, why does the process to file them have to be so ...

The smartest tax doesn’t have to raise a lot of revenue to do social good. The point of a carbon tax, for example, is to ...

Veteran liberal journalist Robert Kuttner’s memoir recalls a time when prosperity really was shared—and reminds us how it ...

Yes, it was Reagan’s America in the 1980s. But progressives made surprising strides then that are worth remembering—and ...

Terrorism, he writes, “was not simply the unthinking product of a particular ideology but a tool that its users chose, often ...

Suppose that you are walking at night, and you see someone on your side of the street coming toward you, about to pass you. Is his face angry, or is he just thinking seriously about something? Your ...

The recall of San Francisco’s progressive district attorney Chesa Boudin has predictably reignited the national debate on criminal justice reform and prosecutor reform in particular. Those celebrating ...

As the Ukraine War drags on, the countries on each side appear politically entrenched. Vladimir Putin lectures the world that Ukraine is rightfully Russian, while at least for now, much of the world ...

There is a growing belief on the left that American criminal adjudication is so grossly unjust that its institutions ought to be abolished. Under this line of thinking, police, jails, prisons, and the ...

Every society must choose which goods and services—from education to roads to health care—to provide publicly and which to relegate to the realm of individual responsibility. Over the past five ...

The essays that follow, on the current state of macroeconomic analysis, were motivated by at least two developments. First, consider the question posed by Queen Elizabeth, who, on visiting the London ...

Federal and state regulators have recently taken significant action to curb concentrated corporate power in our economy. Some notable steps include state enforcers filing new antitrust cases against ...