If the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) already knows so much about our taxes, why does the process to file them have to be so ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

We’re learning a lot about how government can shape our lives by watching the second Trump Administration dismantle it. One lesson is that government’s capacity to do good runs on information no less ...

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 ...

For several years the opioid crisis has been recognized as a major national catastrophe. Millions of people have become addicted to the new generation of opioid drugs. In many cases, this addiction ...

There is a growing belief on the left that American criminal adjudication is so grossly unjust that its institutions ought to be abolished. Under this line of thinking, police, jails, prisons, and the ...

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 ...