For about a week every year in my childhood, I was a member of one of America's fading aristocracies. Sometimes around Christmas, more often... Read More

The economy is picking up a little steam. But it's still a far cry from the go-go growth fondly remembered from the Reagan and Clinton eras.... Read More

In search of a quiet spot to conduct interviews at the Centre for American Progress's Ideas Conference in Washington this week, Lexington... Read More

Young Americans are moving to the left. On virtually every issue, they support the Democratic party. A Harvard University poll taken in... Read More

My first full-time job after college was with the Center for American Progress, a policy institute in Washington, D.C. The Center was about a... Read More

Conventional wisdom says there was a period in American life called the “1950s,”—or colloquially the... Read More

When Republicans look at what they've gotten out of their current moment of unified government, they can point to cutting corporate taxes,... Read More

Wireless carriers T-Mobile and Sprint announced on April 29 that they had agreed to merge, closing a deal the two companies started... Read More

In the fight for the future of media and democracy, the US Senate's vote Wednesday to restore net neutrality ranks as a major victory. It is... Read More

Imagine that you could have purchased a Tesla, but you didn't. Instead, you evaluated your family's needs and bought a Chevy Tahoe at the... Read More

Against all odds, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) renegotiations launched by the Trump administration in August 2017 were... Read More

When Ronald Reagan was elected president in 1980, many in the media considered him a dangerous extremist.Some reporters warned that Reagan... Read More

Last Wednesday, Rep. Carlos Curbelo (R-FL) and 16 other moderate Republicans filed a discharge petition to expedite voting on the four... Read More

Recently, it seems as though a growing chorus of progressives have begun to complain about how our governing institutions distort the true... Read More

Many people have chronicled the failures of major media outlets during the 2016 election. Perhaps the best documentation of that came from a... Read More

The Trump administration's proposal to rescind $15 billion in previously appropriated funds is notable mainly for its insignificance. The... Read More

Republicans facing a tough midterm election season are pointing to the strong economy as proof their new tax law is working its magic.But as... Read More

"Social justice”—the goal of a host of progressive projects, from opposition to mass incarceration to the #metoo campaign against... Read More

The White House's wish list once comprised a sweeping infrastructure measure, overhauling the federal welfare program, another try at... Read More

On Wednesday, May 16, the Senate is expected to vote on a Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution of disapproval that purports to... Read More

There is no one in the world more important to the future of journalism than Mark Zuckerberg. That should make anyone who cares about... Read More

David Brooks wrote last week that “[t]here is growing reason to believe that Donald Trump understands the thug mind a whole lot better... Read More

This year drug overdose deaths may exceed 70,000 Americans. We do not really know, however. We have no estimate of the number of non-fatal... Read More

The water crisis in Flint, Michigan, became a national news story, and for good reason. Republican leaders in the state were finally forced... Read More