The American party system is in an unusual extended deadlock, with two minority parties. Both parties have plausible avenues to build a lasting majority coalition, but to do so, they must understand ...

Although the Trump administration initiated the antitrust case against Google, it is Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’s antitrust team—formulated under the leadership of Jonathan Kanter, Lina Khan ...

Last week a judge unsealed a 165-page legal brief with damaging new revelations about President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. The revelations have been ...

Although few yet see it coming, humans are about to enter a new era of history. Call it “the age of depopulation.” For the first time since the Black Death in the 1300s, the planetary ...

Understanding and explaining trade-offs is key to making smart public policy. To get one particular thing, American voters, you have to give up something else. Sure, you might be better off ...

The aftermath of the 2023 Supreme Court ruling in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard (SFFA) has put a spotlight on the capriciousness of admissions practices at selective colleges.

Combined with updated estimates for other Inflation Reduction Act spending programs (on alternative energy development and tax credits for electric vehicles), it is possible that the entirety of the ...

This paper empirically estimates sustainable sovereign debt limits for 27 OECD countries, updating the model in Ghosh et al. (2013). We assess fiscal reaction functions, confirming the fiscal ...

Policymakers should focus on promoting employment and creating conditions for job growth, rather than solely focusing on income redistribution or expansion of the social safety net. AI might make that ...

The national debt will soon reach all-time high share of GDP, due to the growth of spending on Social Security and Medicare. But both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris oppose cutting these programs ...