Why top-line federal statistics miss the economic pain average Americans feel.
November/December 2025
Monopoly Men
Big Tech platforms and the Gilded Age trusts have something in common: a stifling grip on the fundamentals of commerce.
Justice Barrett’s Campaign Biography
By presenting judging as pure law untainted by politics, Amy Coney Barrett offers a picture so implausible it makes cynics of us all.
How America’s Tax Code Built an Aristocracy
We say taxes make citizens equal before the state. In practice, they divide them—between those whose income is tracked at the source and those whose wealth is invisible.
Running Out of People
The coming population bust won’t be solved by right-wing pronatalism or left-wing subsidies. It will require confronting how modern life puts parenting out of reach.
Constitution in Progress
The most revolutionary part of our founding document is its capacity for change.

