There’s an answer to the question of how we crawl out of the present-day polarized quicksand. It’s called fusion voting ...

Dan Cantor wrote our Winter 2026 cover story on fusion voting. Here, he answers some common questions readers might have on the topic. “Do no harm” is the heart of the doctor’s Hippocratic Oath. It ...

A look inside the resurgent labor movement, from the inspiring moments to the mundane work that must be done every day.

Yes, AI will kill some jobs. But it will also create new ones. We need policies that will help workers adjust.

Center for Ballot Freedom. He was a co-founder of the Working Families Party.

Presidential Chair and Professor of History, Emerita at the University of New Hampshire. She is the author of several books on modern American history, including The Highest Glass Ceiling: Women’s ...

Less than 36 hours after the polls closed, Democrats had formed up into their traditional circular firing squad—and this time, after they won the presidency! But Joe Biden’s margin over Donald Trump ...

Everywhere you look in Washington, D.C. today, there are signs that industrial policy is back. The Biden Administration has characterized its main legislative achievements as an expression of a new ...

In one of the final issues of National Journal, John Judis wrote a characteristically thoughtful and historically minded explanation of the stunning support among Republicans for Donald Trump.

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” —James Baldwin in No Name in the Street The COVID-19 pandemic is a historic public health disaster that has ...

The Supermajority: How the Supreme Court Divided America by Michael Waldman • Simon & Schuster • 2023 • 400 pages • $30 “Every day the [Supreme] Court’s power grab pushes us closer to a crisis, a ...

With the end of the Cold War, a wave of optimism emerged that authoritarian and totalitarian regimes would soon give way to democratic ones. United States foreign policy sought to encourage that trend ...