A Journal of Ideas

Inequality

‘There Isn’t a Vaccine to Buy’

Dr. Tom Frieden, Former CDC Director, talks with Democracy about the Delta variant, criticism of the CDC, and the urgent need for a broad global response.

By Tom Frieden

Unfulfilled

Amazon and its warehouses have changed our consuming lives for the better—but at a high price to our working lives.

By Steven Greenhouse

‘Middle-Out’: More Than a Slogan

In Pittsburgh announcing his $2 trillion infrastructure plan, the President said we need to build our economy “from the middle out.” To some of us, that sounded familiar.

By Nick Hanauer Eric Beinhocker

Helping Our Most Stressed Workers

Businesses—with a push from philanthropy—must do better by our precarious workforce.

By Marina Gorbis

Meritocracy and its Discontents

Michael Sandel says the hoi polloi are mad at the elites—and he thinks they have good reason to be.

By David Madland