A new report offers a bracing autopsy of the 2016 election—and lays out a plan for revitalization

The goal of his Muslim ban is to stampede the public into accepting even more extreme measures in the name of self-defense

 Bernie Sanders has a plan to expand, not “save,” Social Security—and it should be popular

People are beginning to grasp that lopsided wars—contests between high-tech and primitive forms of destruction—do not necessarily lead to victory or peace. They have led the United States into more wars

The misdirection of government power suggests that many leaders don’t believe things were changed that much by the 2008 breakdown. They’re complacently doing the same stuff that failed more than eighty years ago

The spies may not have tapped the White House phones but they do know what he knows and can always make use of it

Whatever Congress decides to do about bombing Syria, the United States is still trapped by a historic contradiction of its own invention.…

The billionaires may be trying to hijack the presidential election, but they have failed to stifle the creative ambitions of progressive leaders.…

Americans are clucking righteously over the financial mess in Europe, acting alarmed but privately finding pleasure in the other guy’s misfortunes. Poor,…

We have reached a pivotal moment in government and politics, and it feels like the last, groaning spasms of New Deal liberalism.…