The Empire State Building, then the world’s tallest building at 102 stories, was completed in 1931. Building that majestic structure, later called one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World by the ...

Compared to the discourse in the other party’s nomination process, the debate between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders over health-care reform may have seemed thoughtful and on point. Clinton argued ...

The United States stands out among Western democracies for its extreme partisan political polarization. It has reached the level of “pernicious polarization,” by which I mean a division of society ...

Until the late 1970s, a rough balance of power existed between democracy and capitalism. Can today’s capitalists be more like yesterday’s?

For the past year and a half, the United States has been battling the COVID-19 pandemic along with the ensuing economic fallout. Now, Congress and the Biden-Harris Administration’s biggest task, along ...

In his 1979 book, The Question of Palestine, the academic, literary critic, and Palestinian-American activist Edward Said observed of Palestine that “[O]ne of the features of a small non-European ...

When we think about the health or weakness of the economy, we tend to look first to the big indicators: the Dow Jones industrial average, the sales figures of the Big Three automakers, and the success ...

is a Senior Director at the Milken Institute, where he leads programming to scale up regional innovation and climate resilience.

Arguments Needed Now: A “Forgotten America” Fund We need to take some of Trump’s tariff revenue and plow it back into high-need communities. By Dan Carol from July 18, 2025, 4:04 pm – 10 MIN READ ...

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The United States is witnessing another vigorous debate over its immigration and border security policies. Many aspects of this debate are now familiar, even tired. Who should be a priority for ...

Arguments Think Tanks in an Authoritarian Moment When the “war of ideas” meets the war on knowledge, how can ideas come out on top? By Mark Schmitt from July 16, 2025, 4:12 pm – 12 MIN READ Tagged ...