The ideological dimension of U.S. geopolitical competition with China has become unmistakable. Not only the United States, but other allies including those in Europe now use terms such as “systemic ...

It’s not easy to be optimistic if you’re on the left side of the American political debate these days. Donald Trump is back as President, with a compliant, Republican-majority Congress ready to do his ...

“I remember the day that they started spraying hog waste on us. It was a Saturday in the mid-1990s . . . . Just as I was thinking to myself that there was no way that he would begin spraying waste so ...

Who Is Government?: The Untold Story of Public Service edited by Michael Lewis • Riverhead Books • 2025 • 243 pages • $30 The profiles are now collected in a new book under the title Who Is Government ...

President Joe Biden and his team have repeatedly declared that “America is back.” The rest of the world is not so sure. Washington would promote multilateralism and champion democracy; American ...

At the start of this school year, a picture of two young girls sitting outside a Taco Bell swept across the Internet. They were not headed to the restaurant for lunch. Instead, they were seen ...

The murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis in 2020 spurred a “racial reckoning”: a surge of interest not only in reforming policing, but also in challenging us to understand the role of race in our ...

Pundits talk a lot—a whole lot—about “preserving democracy” in the face of President Donald Trump’s rising authoritarianism. This is not the right call. Not because I disagree that American democracy ...

The smartest tax doesn’t have to raise a lot of revenue to do social good. The point of a carbon tax, for example, is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to mitigate climate change. If it succeeds in ...

In 2016, a consortium of journalists exposed how a global elite including associates of Russian President Vladimir Putin, the King of Saudi Arabia, drug dealers, and others hid their wealth (legally ...

The cost of everything is rising, and wages aren’t keeping up for everyone. “Affordability” has become the word of the moment, and with good reason: Zohran Mamdani rode the concept to his stunning ...

Suppose that you are walking at night, and you see someone on your side of the street coming toward you, about to pass you. Is his face angry, or is he just thinking seriously about something? Your ...