Vice President Joe Biden is fond of a stump speech line that implores his opponents not to profess lofty values without showing their budgets. Budget priorities, Biden argues, reveal whether or not ...

A year ago at this time we were all flying high, eagerly preparing to meet the challenges of “the middle-out moment.” Then came November’s brutal election. But while our spirits may have crashed, the ...

The Editors of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas are Michael Tomasky (Editor), Jack Meserve (Managing Editor), Delphine d'Amora (Associate Editor), and Claire Schnatterbeck (Assistant Editor).

Charleroi, a little town of about 4,000 in the heart of western Pennsylvania’s Monongahela Valley, lost not one but three ...

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 ...

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 ...

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; ...

America has a billionaire problem. When just 300,000 households control $40 trillion, more than five times what the federal government spent last year, the result is the systematic purchase of our ...

It is almost axiomatic that authoritarian (or “would be” authoritarian) leaders are innately hostile to free and open universities. Consider, for instance, the obsessive preoccupation over much of the ...

I hear that question a lot from Delawareans—nurses and cops, dental hygienists and mechanics. I also heard it plenty in 2024 as I campaigned for Kamala Harris and Senate Democrats. Elected ...

Dark Money: The Hidden History of The Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane Mayer • Doubleday • 2016 • 449 pages • $29.95 Ida Tarbell’s extraordinary 1904 book, The History of the ...

In the fall of 1966, a thousand young men converged on New Haven, Connecticut, as members of the most revolutionary freshman class ever admitted to Yale. We were chosen to advance three goals.