The government is a vast, complex system that Americans pay for, rebel against, rely upon, dismiss, and celebrate. It’s also our shared resource for addressing the biggest problems of society. And it’s made up of people, mostly unrecognized and uncelebrated, doing work that can be deeply consequential and beneficial to everyone. Michael Lewis invited his […]

When it comes to the history of the Jewish people, there is a national and global crisis of misunderstanding. This lack of knowledge feeds ignorance, hatred, and violence. In Antisemitism in America: A Warning, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer—the highest-elected Jewish official in American history—illuminates the Jewish American experience, including the prejudices both hidden and overt […]

To trace the global history of the twenty-first century so far is to trace a pattern of growing unaffordability and shortage: a national housing crisis, not enough workers, a shortfall of chips for cars and computers, an insufficient clean energy infrastructure. The crisis that’s clicking into focus now has been building for decades—because we haven’t […]

When Professor Bernadette Atuahene moved to Detroit, she planned to study the city's squatting phenomenon. What she accidentally found was too urgent to ignore. Her neighbors, many of whom had owned their homes for decades, were losing them to property tax foreclosure, leaving once bustling Black neighborhoods blighted with vacant homes. Through years of dogged […]