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

The Supreme Court is leading the conservative assault on federal administrative agencies—an important, if often hidden, aspect of the American government—in plain sight. Within the last 12 months ...

President Trump has fired more inspectors general than any President. Several of the fired inspectors general have led investigations that were way too close to the President. These include most ...

Americans were more divided than ever in 2021, but everyone in the country still agreed on one thing: The Democratic Party has a messaging problem. The problem partly reflects the Democratic Party’s ...

Remember the Dark Ages in America for children? Child labor? No public schools? No vaccinations? Now, right-wing politicians, Christian nationalists, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are waging a multifront ...

Proposals for constitutional reform are afoot in ways that I have not seen in my lifetime. All of this activity reflects a fear: the age of Trump, with its relentless populist assault, and its rule-by ...

Before a police shooting makes headlines, before the shooting ever happens, there is the moment of contact between the police officer and the eventual victim. Sometimes the officer is responding to a ...

The Words That Made Us: America’s Constitutional Conversation—1760-1840 By Akhil Amar • Basic Books • 2021 • 832 pages • $40 Ben Franklin famously told a questioner as he left Philadelphia’s ...

The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution: Reconstructing The Economic Foundations of American Democracy By Joseph Fishkin and William Forbath • Harvard University Press • 2022 • 640 pages • $39.95 Allegiance ...

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 ...

What Really Went Wrong: The West and the Failure of Democracy in the Middle East by Fawaz A. Gerges • Yale University Press • 2024 • 336 pages • $28 The 2010 Arab Spring was a moment of real hope for ...

This fall, the wind stopped blowing in much of Europe. Hundreds of onshore and offshore wind generators stopped turning. The resulting energy shortfall has helped (combined with other causes) create a ...