Chicago Public Schools—From Worst to (Almost) First
A system that used to be ridiculed has become a model for schools in other cities.
Dystopia Now, Socialism Soon?
The Future that no one asked for
Red Weather Vanes
Maurice Isserman’s history of American communism documents both its achievements and its fatal obeisance to Soviet doctrines.
Florida Invests in Catastrophe
The Sunshine State is putting public pension money into risky bonds that transfer risk away from insurance companies.
Broken Cords
We’re moving toward replacing cable TV with a bundle of streaming networks. Will local and news programming get lost in the transition?
The Case for Pragmatic Socialism
The times are right for a socialist agenda that America can accept. We even have examples of it in practice.
Wall Street Hits the Locker Room
Private equity firms are maneuvering to invest in college athletes, their schools, and the conferences they play in. The deals could add risk to the whole system.
Neighborhoods Play Hardball
For decades, wealthy owners and financiers have gotten cities to pay for their sports stadiums. It’s not so easy anymore.
The Domination Tour
Four decades of intensifying corporate concentration turned the music industry into a wasteland of institutionalized control and abuse. Are antitrust enforcers ready to reckon with that?
The Left’s Fragile Foundations
Could a weaponized Trump IRS wreck the progressive infrastructure by attacking the entire nonprofit ecosystem?
School’s Out
Demographic crashes and rising costs threaten an entire segment of higher education.
The Kingmakers
This Supreme Court session demonstrated that the current conservative majority is unrestrained in its desire to expand its own power.
The Supreme Court’s License for Presidential Vengeance
The Court’s ruling on presidential immunity makes us all vulnerable.
