Amid the recent flurry of radical executive orders, one in particular has flown under the radar: President Trump has seized ...

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.” ...

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 ...

The Empire State Building, then the world’s tallest building at 102 stories, was completed in 1931. Building that majestic structure, later called one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World by the ...

Starting in the late 1880s with the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC), Congress established “independent agencies” outside the executive branch. By one count, there are about 40 such agencies in ...

The Editors of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas are Michael Tomasky (Editor), Jack Meserve (Managing Editor), and Delphine d'Amora (Associate Editor).

Nearly three years after Donald Trump won the presidency, in part by promising a substantial boost for American workers, Democrats are still attempting to agree on an economic message to help them win ...

On Election Day 2016, hundreds flocked to Susan B. Anthony’s gravesite in Rochester, New York to place their “I Voted” stickers on her tombstone. Video from the day shows a steady stream of visitors, ...

When we think about economic growth, we generally think about inventions and technology—from the combustion engine to the iPhone—and about the effects of capital accumulation, like big dams or ...

Sometime during the next President’s term, her or his national security team may be summoned to the Oval Office to discuss a catastrophe of historic proportions: more than one million deaths in just a ...

The murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis in 2020 spurred a “racial reckoning”: a surge of interest not only in reforming policing, but also in challenging us to understand the role of race in our ...

Solar panels adorn the roof of my Colorado home. I helped build two large solar farms. I felt sure I was helping mitigate global warming, and it felt good! And as a happy additional benefit, ...