NEPA and Its Discontents
What’s missing from the political conversation around America’s embattled environmental law?
Live Tax-Free and Die
After mining out state budgets for 50 years, conservative lawmakers across the country are now turning their pickaxes to local governments’ largest source of revenue: property taxes.
A Retrospective on Bidenomics
Joe Biden listened to the left on full employment. But the lasting effects were wanting, and the politics were brutal.
Capital Ideas
Two books on the history of capitalism provide lessons for how to tame it.
Finally, an Anti-Woke War
America refuses a prolonged DEI quagmire.
The Far-Right Cash Machine
There’s money in bigotry, and specialized crowdfunding platforms are where to get it.
A House of Labor Divided
Internal rivalries among the leaders of the United Auto Workers are sapping the momentum from its historic victories.
Private Equity’s Great Escape
The industry bought companies for too much money and made a bunch of bad loans. Now they’re scrambling to avoid the reckoning.
When ICE Blows Through Rural America
As the surge in Minneapolis winds down, small communities in Minnesota (like Willmar) fend off more arrests and lasting impacts.
How the Republican Party Forgot It Was Conservative
And why, apparently, most Republicans don’t care
