1 MIN READ

The Three Pillars of a New Era

By Miguel A. Cardona

12 MIN READ

A Department of Education—And Then Some

By Kevin Carey

12 MIN READ

Tapping the Brakes on Devices

By Randi Weingarten

18 MIN READ

How to Rein in the Bad of AI

By Rebecca Winthrop

14 MIN READ

Tell America the Truth About Literacy

By Richard Barth

13 MIN READ

Why High Schools Are the Linchpin

By James Kvaal

13 MIN READ

Tackling the Youth Mental Health Crisis

By Andrea Clyne

12 MIN READ

Don’t Forget the Family

By Elliot Haspel Joe Waters

13 MIN READ

Features

Governance in an Anti-System Age

What if returning to “normal” is not the safest path for our democracy, but the most dangerous one?

By Deepak Bhargava Felicia Wong

35 MIN READ

How Monopoly Fascism Rose Again

A generation of Americans learned from Nazi Germany that monopolies fuel fascism. It's time we relearned that lesson.

By Ron Knox

35 MIN READ

How to Fix the Civil Service

It was broken long before Donald Trump. Here’s what went wrong—and how we can repair it.

By Margaret Mullins

22 MIN READ

Fighting Wall Street’s Monopolies

Finance has consolidated within itself while fostering crushing market power throughout the economy. Here's how we can do better.

By Carter Dougherty

28 MIN READ

Book Reviews

Whose Fourth of July?

What 250 years of American commemorations reveal about our racial divide.

By Lester Spence

14 MIN READ

Rate Players

The utility companies’ ploys to avoid regulation and thwart public power turn out to be as old as the industry itself.

By Marissa P. Gillett

15 MIN READ

Is the Age of Equality Over?

Some people sure seem to think it should be. Actually, some people have thought this for a very long time.

By Michael Kazin

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