Special Report

Proponents say that caps on taxing and spending enhance democracy. In reality, they destroy accountable government — but that can be changed.

Can we reverse the vicious circle of frustrated citizens denying state government adequate resources — and then resenting the lack of state services?

In some states, progressive leadership and grass-roots activism have turned crisis into opportunity for long-deferred tax reform.

Business and government may waver, but the American
people want more manufacturing.

Since 2001, the U.S. has lost 42,400 factories —
and its technical edge.

The trading system America sold the world is killing U.S. industry. Here’s a better way.

If the economy is going to come back, we need
to buy — and make — American.

If we don’t develop a national industrial policy for
clean-energy production, the strategies of other nations will displace American companies and jobs.

In the 1970s, Wall Street and its economists defeated manufacturing.

Beijing’s mercantilism challenges America’s market ideology and industrial future.