The ultra-wealthy’s dominant power in our political system forces the question: Should America limit billionaire fortunes? A ...

Policymakers from across the political spectrum are endorsing the abundance agenda, with voices ranging from Jared Polis to ...

We can’t just return to the status quo ante. Paradoxically, we’ll need a federal government with both more power and less.

Vice President of Policy Development at the Progressive Policy Institute and the Director of PPI’s Center for Funding America’s Future.

Mothers Of Massive Resistance: White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy By Elizabeth Gillespie McRae • Oxford University Press • 2018 • 343 pages • $34.95 After the 2016 election, many ...

Stable, consolidated democracies are defined, in large part, by the durability of their formal institutions. Citizens, elected officials, and political parties engage in politics expecting democratic ...

After striving for months to overcome Senate obstruction, climate activists have good reason to tenaciously fight onward for Build Back Better Act (BBBA) priorities. Their eyes fixate on the prize: ...

The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America by Andrew W. Kahrl • University of Chicago Press • 2024 • 456 pages • $35 “No taxation without representation” is often ...

The November 2020 presidential election marked a moment of real optimism for those looking for a politics beyond neoliberalism. Democrats, buffeted by four years of the Trump Administration and facing ...

The success of the Biden Administration will depend, in no small part, on raising taxes. Tax increases will help pay for the most ambitious items on his agenda, and they will curtail inequality. But ...

In the 1930s, former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt faced the monumental challenge of restoring Americans’ faith in the economy. Agriculture and heavy manufacturing were at the heart of ...

The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again by Robert D. Putnam and Shaylyn Romney Garrett• Simon & Schuster • 2020 • 480 pages • $32.50 Robert Putnam has done it ...