Is Big Business Really That Bad?
Large corporations are vilified in a way that obscures the innovation they spur and the steady jobs they produce.
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Oliver Munday The Past and Future of America's Social Contract
In the 20th century, the United States moved from an economy based on high wages and reliable benefits to a system of low wages and cheap consumer prices, to the detriment of workers. What's next?
Reuters Are We Still a Middle-Class Nation?
It's no accident that the United States has always been an economic paradise for the middle class—that class was invented and reinvented by the government. Now the government needs to reinvent it again—before it's too late
A Radical Plan to Change American Politics
From the term-limitation movement to the rise of Ross Perot, the signs of discontent with the political status quo are everywhere. Our author outlines a plan channel that discontent in an innovative direction, one that would make the House of Representatives more democratic and more responsive to the variety of opinion to be found in the country and that would break the monopoly on power enjoyed by the two parties. “Because of our peculiar electoral law, ” he writes, “the American government is divided between two parties. The American people are not”
