Whether it’s corporate crime, police homicide, or sexual assault, the issue is the same: Does the law apply to everyone?
Columns
Posted inEconomic Policy
What We Know Now
Twenty-five years later, the world has changed in crucial ways that factor into our thinking.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Opportunity Dodge
It’s an empty promise—because the chance to thrive will never be good amid great inequalities.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Can Liberal Democracy Survive?
America is becoming more like the illiberal pseudo-democracies and kleptocracies.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Democracy’s New Moment
For a very long time, those of us committed to strengthening American democracy felt we were-if not voices crying in the wilderness-standing on the sidelines, stamping our feet for attention. Fights over the right to vote and other civil rights are as old as the Republic, as are efforts to restrain the influence of money […]
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
The Crash of The New Republic
The mass exodus from the storied magazine was not the result of disagreements about the value of new technology.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Red State, Blue State: Polarization and the American Situation
The country is stuck but it is not stationary. Some things are changing—just not at the federal level.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Three Reasons Liberals Lack Traction With Voters, Despite Conservative Failures
The liberal imagination has been stunted by decades of conservative obstruction.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Three Curses Faced By Democrats — And How to Lift Them
In creating a better political future, it is better to be cursed with youth than blessed with age.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Can Reformers Save Our Election System from the Supreme Court?
Slowly but steadily, SCOTUS is decimating every legal justification for campaign-finance rules.