A Journal of Ideas

Inequality

COVID-19 and the People's Vaccine

After decades of price gouging, a lack of access to essential medicines, and millions of unnecessary deaths, it's time for science in the public interest.

By Sophia Crabbe-Field

The Post-Planning Pandemic

The coronavirus will dismantle urban life in America—if we let it.

By Jacob Anbinder

Imagining a New New Deal

More government intervention will mean more freedom, not less—but only if progressives focus directly on issues of power and equity.

By K. Sabeel Rahman

A Shock-Proof America

Let's view this moment as a turning point and build the ample social safety net Americans need.

By Jon Cowan James M. Kessler

How the Law Harms Public Health

The pandemic highlights the urgent need to change the legal paradigm from individual responsibility to social solidarity.

By Lindsay F. Wiley Samuel R. Bagenstos