Magazine

Why the U.S.-led Liberal World Order Is Only Mostly Dead

by Paul Glastris May 4, 2026May 5, 2026

The same power that makes America capable of doing vast damage globally also enables it to do great good.

Algorithmic Pricing: What looks like the invisible hand is increasingly the work of automated pricing systems.

Magazine

How Amazon’s AI Algorithms Raise the Prices You Pay

by Stacy Mitchell April 20, 2026May 5, 2026

Democrats can rebuild trust on education by combining the best of centrist and progressive ideas to improve K-12 outcomes.

Magazine

How Democrats Can Win on Education Again

by Thomas Toch April 9, 2026May 5, 2026

Books

Are You There, Judy?

by Sara Bhatia April 8, 2026May 5, 2026

College-Educated Working Class: New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Senator Bernie Sanders rally with Starbucks workers pushing to unionize for better pay and working conditions.

Books

Frappuccino Socialists

by Kenneth S. Baer April 7, 2026May 5, 2026

Roe’s Autopsy: The death of Roe v. Wade followed decades of premeditation. Here, “Operation Rescue” organizer Randall Terry shows a crowd of anti-abortion protesters a human fetus during a sit-in outside the Northeast Women’s Center in Philadelphia, July, 1988.

Books

Who Killed Roe v. Wade?

by Clara Bingham April 6, 2026May 5, 2026

An A-10 Warthog (A-10 Thunderbolt II) in Wisconsin on July 24, 2025.

Politics

The Air Force Tried, but the A-10 Is Too Good to Kill

by Mike Lofgren April 3, 2026May 5, 2026

Third Term? Attorney Alan Dershowitz, background center left in blue shirt, listens to remarks by President Donald Trump during his hush money trial at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York, in May 2024.

Books

Alan Dershowitz: Trump Can Serve a Third Term

by Garrett Epps April 2, 2026May 5, 2026

Drone Dominance: The conflict in the Middle East is showing the value of Ukraine’s weapons systems and military tactics. Here, an instructor demonstrates the operation of a drone designed to destroy Russian attack drones in the Kyiv region, March, 2026.

Magazine

Ukraine’s Way of War is Coming to the Persian Gulf

by Tamar Jacoby April 2, 2026May 5, 2026

Do No Harm: A new rule codifies the idea that every college degree should make graduates better off than if they had never attended.

Magazine

The Bipartisan Roots of Trump’s One Good Education Reform

by Paul Glastris and Nate Weisberg April 1, 2026May 5, 2026

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Why the U.S.-led Liberal World Order Is Only Mostly Dead

How Amazon’s AI Algorithms Raise the Prices You Pay

How Democrats Can Win on Education Again

Are You There, Judy?

Frappuccino Socialists

Who Killed Roe v. Wade?

The Air Force Tried, but the A-10 Is Too Good to Kill

Alan Dershowitz: Trump Can Serve a Third Term

Ukraine’s Way of War is Coming to the Persian Gulf

The Bipartisan Roots of Trump’s One Good Education Reform

The Feminist Was a Spy

A Fitting End for Trump’s Gaudy Ballroom

The New Normal in Kyiv, Ukraine

How to Build a Big Tent

The Swastika and the Red Hat

A Different Kind of College Ranking

After the Closures