A Journal of Ideas

politics

A New Social Contract for the 21st Century

It is high time to rethink the relationship—the basic bargain—between the individual, companies, and our government.

By Neera Tanden

'The Enlightenment Matters'

Historian Heather Cox Richardson on governing by reality vs. governing by ideology.

By Heather Cox Richardson

Rust Belt in Transition

What has happened in Pennsylvania’s, and the entire Rust Belt’s, “Middle Suburb” counties, and can it be reversed?

By Lara Putnam

Can Women Save America?

By The Editors

Immigrant and Refugee Women: Elected Leaders for the New America

By Sayu Bhojwani