Features

The Next Progressive State

We can’t just return to the status quo ante. Paradoxically, we’ll need a federal government with both more power and less.

By K. Sabeel Rahman

Fall 2025, No. 78 – 22 MIN READ

Features

A Path Forward on Long-Term Care

Congress can’t get it done. But in Washington state, they’ve created a model for the other Washington to build on some day.

By Robert P. Saldin

Fall 2025, No. 78 – 24 MIN READ

Features

Blueprint for a Popular Climate Agenda

The path forward is climate policy written not about impacted workers and communities, but by them.

By Ben Beachy

Fall 2025, No. 78 – 28 MIN READ

Arguments

The Boomers’ Long Road to Hell

On my generation’s watch, our nation has declined in almost every way. Can the younger generations save us?

By Paul Taylor

September 10, 2025, 5:14 pm – 22 MIN READ

Book Reviews

We're Not So Special

A new book boldly challenges the concept of human exceptionalism.

By Cass R. Sunstein

Fall 2025, No. 78 – 13 MIN READ

Features

It's Carl Schmitt's Moment

Time to take the “Crown Jurist of the Third Reich” seriously again. Uh-oh.

By James Traub

Summer 2025, No. 77 – 34 MIN READ

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

July 18, 2025, 4:04 pm – 10 MIN READ

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

July 16, 2025, 4:12 pm – 12 MIN READ