Columns

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s quest for a third term may signal a turn against the term limits enacted around the country in the early 1990s.

There is no longer either a moral or constitutional basis for rigging the school system for the well-to-do.

Ballot initiatives are just another weapon in the public-policy wars. Progressives shouldn’t fear them.

From our October print issue: For those of us who have been skeptical of choice as a principle for government programs, it’s time to stop fighting.

A presidential race between Obama and McCain was supposed to bring a less-polarized politics, so why hasn’t it worked out that way?

There is a basic difference between the economic philosophies of John McCain and Barack Obama.

Today’s social-justice activists start with very different conditions than those that existed in the 1960s.

Progressive organizations are finally becoming more conscious about setting the agenda and fighting for a worldview.

Fixing the economic crisis will require a drastic revision of the ideological assumptions that have dominated American political discourse for a generation.

Liberal institutions that once imitated conservative ones are now far surpassing their role models. The quick-moving, imaginative progressive think tank now makes its conservative analogue look like a threadbare brand name from the 1970s.