A strong dollar is bad for exports. But no one cares because these days our most favored export is … the dollar.

It’s probably already too late to save American democracy. Here is the series of improbable events doing so would require.

The current political order may have proven a failure. But neither party has presented an alternative yet.

Two Washington Post articles this week suggest we’re “returning” to a time of savage inequality. Returning?!

By virtually every objective measure, Democrats do better. It’s not even close. So why doesn’t America know it?

A San Francisco Chronicle report on her mental state is devastating and undeniable. DiFi, don’t be the Democrats’ Strom Thurmond.

Is the Republican Party compatible with democracy?

The case for keeping public goods under democratic control

We had it once, in the 1970s. Predicting its return is like predicting Japanese planes will again bomb Pearl Harbor.

Why did William F. Buckley campaign to free Edgar Smith?

The former presidential candidate had an admirable knack for breaking inane political taboos.

Human Events once shaped Republican policies. Now it’s pure Trumpism.

The idea that Joe Biden squandered American credibility in the Afghan withdrawal is seductive, but it connects the wrong dots.

We are still living in the world that Walsh, and “America’s Most Wanted,” helped build: a paranoid populace that believes crime is everywhere and can only be solved through relentless policing.

We can debate its economic harm, but its political damage to progressive governance is indisputable.

While Republicans cling to trickle-down delusions, Biden is reviving a philosophy of growth that the party hasn’t embraced since LBJ.

In the Biden era, the Reaganite consensus is finally breaking down.

The decades-long war on government has left struggling Americans to fend for themselves.

Robert Mundell’s theories spawned decades of economic debate and still matter to the big ideas of today.

A schism in the faith between liberals and conservatives is being exacerbated by a group of plutocrats.