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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

Just Giving: Why Philanthropy Is Failing Democracy and How It Can Do Better by Rob Reich • Princeton University Press • 2018 • 256 Pages • $27.95 To say that the very wealthy exert disproportionate, ...

America has a billionaire problem. When just 300,000 households control $40 trillion, more than five times what the federal government spent last year, the result is the systematic purchase of our ...

At the start of this school year, a picture of two young girls sitting outside a Taco Bell swept across the Internet. They were not headed to the restaurant for lunch. Instead, they were seen ...

The November 2020 presidential election marked a moment of real optimism for those looking for a politics beyond neoliberalism. Democrats, buffeted by four years of the Trump Administration and facing ...

Stable, consolidated democracies are defined, in large part, by the durability of their formal institutions. Citizens, elected officials, and political parties engage in politics expecting democratic ...

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.” ...