Capitalism Alone: The Future of the System that Rules the World by Branko Milanovic • Harvard University Press • 2019 • 304 pages • $29.95 In certain quarters of the United States it is taken for ...

American Covenant: How the Constitution Unified Our Nation—and Could Again by Yuval Levin • Basic Books • 2024 • 352 pages • $32 No Democracy Lasts Forever: How the Constitution Threatens the United ...

The Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of the Common Good by Michael J. Sandel• Farrar, Straus and Giroux • 2020 • 288 pages • $28 Understanding how Donald Trump came to be elected President in 2016 and ...

Stating the obvious: Ours is a government (and thus a society) in crisis. All three branches of our federal government are led by men who do not believe in pluralism. Compromise is for the weak; ...

Artificial intelligence seems to be growing more powerful with each passing day. A model recently released by OpenAI can earn top scores on law school final exams, and ChatGPT and Gemini can ...

Imagine a not-too-distant future where every decision made by elected officials begins with the question “What is best for the country?” The question seems like it should be an obvious one for any ...

“We, the people.” It is a very eloquent beginning. But when the document was completed on the seventeenth of September 1787 I was not included in that “We, the people.” I felt somehow for many years ...

With the end of the Cold War, a wave of optimism emerged that authoritarian and totalitarian regimes would soon give way to democratic ones. United States foreign policy sought to encourage that trend ...

Dan Cantor wrote our Winter 2026 cover story on fusion voting. Here, he answers some common questions readers might have on the topic. “Do no harm” is the heart of the doctor’s Hippocratic Oath. It ...

Richard Reeves wants his readers to understand that it’s no accident income inequality is rising and the rich are pulling away from everyone else. In fact, he wants them to accept their fair share of ...

Realigners: Partisan Hacks, Political Visionaries, and the Struggle to Rule American Democracy by Timothy Shenk • Farrar, Straus and Giroux • 2022 • 464 pages • $30 In 2002, Ruy Teixeira and John B.

Throughout his campaign, then former Vice President Joe Biden vowed to “Build Back Better.” Among the foreign policy community, Biden’s promise embodied the hope of a return to a pre-Trump world and a ...