Veteran liberal journalist Robert Kuttner’s memoir recalls a time when prosperity really was shared—and reminds us how it ...

Yes, it was Reagan’s America in the 1980s. But progressives made surprising strides then that are worth remembering—and ...

Terrorism, he writes, “was not simply the unthinking product of a particular ideology but a tool that its users chose, often ...

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 ...

The income tax is a landmark progressive innovation of the last century, and it is under attack from multiple sides.

Not because I disagree that American democracy is under assault and we need to take action, but because there’s a world of ...

For as long as the editors of this journal can remember, the broad left has been on the back foot about taxes. Barack Obama in 2012 said that “if you make less than $250,000 a year, like 98 percent of ...

Last year’s giant tax bill established something unprecedented in the history of the income tax, which sounds dryly technical ...

The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) may be the most powerful source of state capacity across the 50 states, employing over 1,400 people and overseeing the electricity, natural gas, water ...

America is having a reform moment. According to Pew Research, hundreds of jurisdictions are adopting or considering “alternative” electoral systems. Several began doing so only in the past few years.

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 democracy is under direct threat today, and that threat must be vanquished. But in the longer term, we also need to think about ways to make democracy in the United States more representative ...