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The median lifespan of a national constitution is roughly the life expectancy of a Great Dane. Why has the U.S. Constitution endured?

For decades, the theory has obscured the basic standard that employees should do well when businesses do well. With cracks now in the foundation, however, new reforms could transform the inequalities at the heart of our economy.

The New York Times’s new 1619 project argues fiercely for a new understanding of what it means to believe in America—and it is cracking the very foundations of conservatism.

Many take the separation between science and politics for granted, but our understanding of science has its own political history—developed, in part, as an anti-communist tool of the Cold War.

“The days that were have now” from Boston Review.

Economics without politics denies important realities about public life.

A reading list for our time of climate crisis.

Solving market failures means addressing government failures.

Abolition is not about transforming the police, it is about transforming the nation.

The misdemeanor system is four times the size of the felony system. With so many gradations of minor crimes—many involving fines in a very informal process—prejudice and inequality shapes prosecution.

The Anthropocene challenges liberalism’s vision of permanent progress. So why has it become another technocratic tool of liberal bureaucracy?

Kenya's poor were among the first to benefit from digital lending apps; now they call it slavery.

It's what our country was founded on—and it will take more than voting out Trump to dismantle it.

Time for a Wealth Tax? from Boston Review.

Contemporary gun violence is not so much terrorism as tradition. It is deeply intertwined with the white supremacist foundations of the United States.