Given the slow growth in wages over the last several decades, especially for the bottom half of the U.S. labor market, progressives are right to call for a higher minimum wage. The current federal ...

In moments of crisis, it’s easy to think that capitalism is finished. But never forget the system’s formidable ability to ...

The Court was the last real line of defense for the right to access abortion in this country. With Kavanaugh’s confirmation, ...

“The denial or observance of [the right to bargain collectively] means the difference between despotism and democracy.” Senator Robert F. Wagner, speaking after the Supreme Court upheld the National ...

A Tale of Two Capitalisms Will capitalism survive today’s extremes of inequality? And if so, which capitalism will it be? By Arthur Goldhammer from Spring 2020, No. 56 – 13 MIN READ Tagged Capitalism ...

Book Reviews When the Anti-Feminists Roared Back In the early 1970s, even Nixon was a feminist. By decade’s end, things had changed. By Alice Echols from Summer 2017, No. 45 – 16 MIN READ Tagged ...

Richard Rothstein’s history of the racist housing policies of governments—yes, even liberal ones—is searing, revealing, and embarrassing.

In an era when sweeping demographic change has created a racial, economic, cultural, and political chasm between the generations, that old Groucho Marx riddle illuminates a paradox about America’s 74 ...

For decades, we’ve been told markets will free us. Now, finally, we’re realizing we need freedom from the market’s worst ravages.

Blue states have the power to change liberalism and block conservatism. They just have to use it.

A Journal of IdeasFeatures Liberalism Without Illusions We must free ourselves from the delusion that history is progressive and accept that the dark side of our nature is here to stay. By William A.

is president of the Open Society Foundations, the world’s largest private funder of independent groups working for justice, democratic governance, and human rights. More recently, Lord Malloch-Brown ...