Spring 2026, No. 80

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Symposium

What's the Not-So-Big Idea?

By The Editors

1 MIN READ

Make Workplaces Safe

By Donna Berkowitz

1 MIN READ

Working People Everywhere Need A Rural New Deal

By Anthony Flaccovento

1 MIN READ

Hire 10,000 Corporate Cops

By Seth Frotman

11 MIN READ

A Solidarity Net, Not a Safety Net

By Alexander Hertel-Fernandez

9 MIN READ

It's Time for an American Health Service

By Alex Jacquez

8 MIN READ

Demand Third-Grade Literacy

By Liam Kerr

1 MIN READ

Focus on Young Children

By Lenny Mendonca

1 MIN READ

A National Long-term Care Guarantee

By Kavita Patel

1 MIN READ

A Federal Customer Service Standard

By Brandon Presley

1 MIN READ

Give Workers the Right of First Refusal

By Bhaskar Sunkara

1 MIN READ

Ban Non-Compete Clauses

By Tim Wu

1 MIN READ

Features

Upstairs-Downstairs Conservatism

MAGA might seem like an anti-intellectual movement, but conservatism’s past and present thinkers are deeply complicit in it.

By Katherine Stewart

9 MIN READ

Liberals and the World

How should the left answer so-called “America First” foreign policy? A roundtable discussion.

By The Editors

40 MIN READ

Book Reviews

Upstairs-Downstairs Conservatism

MAGA might seem like an anti-intellectual movement, but conservatism’s past and present thinkers are deeply complicit in it.

By Katherine Stewart

9 MIN READ

Policy by the People

Experiments across the world have tried to remove politicians themselves from decision-making. And they’ve worked—well, kind of.

By Ethan Porter

12 MIN READ

The Prerogative to Pardon

As with everything else, Donald Trump is pushing the pardon process to the breaking point. Can it be salvaged?

By Liz Oyer

12 MIN READ

Playing for Keeps

People forget that Nevada, purple today, was once a pretty bright shade of red. Then Harry Reid came along.

By Joan Walsh

21 MIN READ

Why Not for Black People?

The United States government has in fact recompensed injured groups in the past. So why won’t it do it for Black Americans?

By Victor Ray

11 MIN READ

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