Book Reviews

Our Plastic Obsession

The story of credit cards is the story of industry versus regulators. Industry won.

By Richard Vague

Winter 2025, No. 75 – 14 MIN READ

Features

Consciousness-Raising and Its Limits

Personal reflection can help change people’s racial attitudes. But attitudes aren’t what drives racial disparities.

By Patrick Mason Larry Mishel

Winter 2025, No. 75 – 21 MIN READ

Symposium

Donald Trump Exploits Our Great Paradox

As the founders knew, the only way to bring about the rupture of democracy is through the very exercise of democracy.

By Fernand Amandi

Winter 2025, No. 75 – 7 MIN READ

Symposium

Fighting the Right's Narrative Dominance

Our strategists, donors, and leaders need to get real about the stakes for meaning-making in America.

By Heather McGhee

Winter 2025, No. 75 – 8 MIN READ

Symposium

Donald Trump Re-Meets the World

Russia. Israel. China. What will Trump—and his pal Elon Musk—do, and how should progressives respond?

By Nancy Okail

Winter 2025, No. 75 – 10 MIN READ

Symposium

Don't Give in on Economics

We’ve gotten far more right than wrong on economics, but we need to build a political economy in which voters can see themselves.

By Felicia Wong

Winter 2025, No. 75 – 8 MIN READ

Symposium

Are Those Young Men Gone Forever?

Surviving the next four years is going to be an exercise in making common cause among people who disagree on many things.

By Ilyse Hogue

Winter 2025, No. 75 – 9 MIN READ

Symposium

It’s Time for Institutional Insurgency

Playing defense on behalf of a broken status quo can’t be our strategy.

By Patrick Gaspard

Winter 2025, No. 75 – 8 MIN READ