Along with creaky knees and extra pounds, many—myself included—carried a backpack of regrets about the way the road to hell ...

In November 2021, then-Governor Charlie Baker of Massachusetts, a Republican, signed into law new congressional maps that would, as before, give Democrats all nine of the state’s House seats—despite ...

Though this is not the way I would usually describe my career, one way of looking at it is that I spent my first 20 working years trying to raise money, and the next 15 trying to give it away. The ...

In early 2018, Larry Kramer, the dean of Stanford Law School and the president of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, which held assets of about $10 billion and disbursed around $400 million a ...

Are democracy and capitalism compatible? Or, to put it differently: What made democracy and capitalism compatible for decades, even centuries, and what strains this relationship today? The end of the ...

This article draws on some ideas developed further in Practical Radicals: Seven Strategies to Change the World by Deepak Bhargava and Stephanie Luce (New Press, November 2023). How could it be that ...

Progressives are deeply skeptical of federalism, and with good reason. States’ rights have been invoked to defend some of the most despicable institutions in American history, most notably slavery and ...

Progressives have lost power in Washington. Every national institution now lies in the hands of the Republican Party. Given the slim chances of Democrats’ winning back Congress in 2018, many think ...

“The denial or observance of [the right to bargain collectively] means the difference between despotism and democracy.” Senator Robert F. Wagner, speaking after the Supreme Court upheld the National ...

Remember Erin Brockovich? Julia Roberts plays a single mom who helps people in Hinkley, California hold Pacific Gas and Electric accountable for knowingly contaminating their water. In an iconic scene ...

What’s in a name? Franklin Delano Roosevelt called himself a Christian, a Democrat, and a liberal. He did not call himself a democratic socialist, or any other kind of socialist. He was, in fact, no ...

In the lead-up to the 2022 midterm elections, President Biden attempted to frame our nation’s central political conflict as a battle between democracy and MAGA-style authoritarianism. “Donald Trump ...