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The times are right for a socialist agenda that America can accept. We even have examples of it in practice. The most distinctively American contribution to the world's philosophical tradition [...]

HELSINKI -- 'The interesting thing about S Group is that it's boring,' Evan Carr told me. We were standing in an S Market, a midsized grocery store chain, in the [...]

VAGAR ISLAND, THE NORTH ATLANTIC -- It's the worst turbulence I've ever felt. For a moment, it feels as though the wings have fallen off the plane. Out the window, [...]

Back in early 2021, as President Biden's $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan was being drawn up, economist and former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers was concerned. Writing in The Washington Post, [...]

In just a one-week span in June, the Supreme Court dealt several terrific blows to American freedom and self-government. It overturned a century-old New York law restricting the concealed carry [...]

Rich people collect the vast majority of capital income. Theresa better way. The Problem of Twelve: When a Few Financial Institutions Control Everything By John Coates Columbia Global Reports Our [...]

It's Not Free Speech: Race, Democracy, and the Future of Academic Freedom By Michael Berube and Jennifer Ruth Johns Hopkins University Press For the last several years, American colleges and [...]

[Conservatives might warm up to electric vehicles if] liberals stop buying Teslas. Elon Musk is a noxious right-wing union-buster whose cars are poorly manufactured, and unlike a decade ago when [...]

Drug patents are supposed to expire in 20 years. Thanks to legal trickery, though, it usually takes a lot longer than that. Back in March, the Patent Office of India [...]

The president's signature climate bill is a huge deal for publicly owned electricity. But it will take work to unlock its potential. The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) will certainly be [...]

The party needs to turn out the suburbs and shore up its urban base. Republican anti-abortion extremism might help. The fate of the Democratic Party's national fortunes this year may [...]

With the introduction of combination antiretroviral therapy, HIV-1 infection is now considered a treatable chronic infectious disease. Modern combination antiretroviral therapy consists of at least three antiretroviral agents and leads [...]

The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan by Sebastian Mallaby Penguin Press, 800 pp. In December 2015, America's central bank, the Federal Reserve, raised its target [...]

Foretelling the End of Capitalism: Intellectual Misadventures Since Karl Marx by Francesco Boldizzoni Harvard University Press, 329 pp. Is capitalism doomed? For well over 150 years, theoreticians have argued that [...]

Transaction Man: The Rise of the Deal and the Decline of the American Dream by Nicholas Lemann Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 320 pp. America has long had a suspicious streak [...]

After Barack Obama's decisive reelection victory in 2012, it looked as though the long process of conservative radicalization might be at a turning point. Democrats had trounced Republicans among all [...]

How would you like to get $2,000 in free money today, fresh off the government printing presses? And what if I told you it wouldn't just be a nice windfall [...]

A strange thing happened in Escalante, Utah, during the government shutdown last fall. The town, a remote community of fewer than 800 souls perched on a high desert plain around [...]

ALT-RIGHT From 4chan to the White House By Mike Wendling 294 pp. Pluto Press. Paper, $18. As Donald Trump went from reality television star to United States president, an obscure, [...]

There are two striking facts about the apparent glasnost that has broken out among Republicans since their shocking (to them) November election losses. The first is how timid the rethinking [...]

1. Passed Health Care Reform: After five presidents over a century failed to create universal health insurance, signed the Affordable Care Act (2010). It will cover 32 million uninsured Americans [...]

Early last year, the ABC newsmagazine show 20/20 aired a segment called 'Scandal in the Peace Corps.' It told the story of a young volunteer named Kate Puzey, who was [...]

We agree wholeheartedly with Drs. Batt and Khan's description of rifampin as 'unequivocally the most important drug in the global fight against [tuberculosis] TB.' (1) However, using a drug effectively [...]

The author regrets the number of articles dealing with counterinsurgency (COIN) that are appearing in the Marine Corps Gazette as against articles on leadership and doctrine. He suggests a balance of articles to prevent the skills of the U.S. Marines from degrading and help in developing new ideas.

America's Bank: The Epic Struggle to Create the Federal Reserve by Roger Lowenstein Penguin Press, 368 pp. Remember when central banking was boring? When it was one of those issues, [...]

Running from Office : Why Young Americans Are Turned Off to Politics by Jennifer L. Lawless and Richard L. Fox Oxford University Press, 232 pp. If there's one thing that [...]

Almost three years ago, in late March 2010, Shirley Sherrod, who was then the USDA state director of rural development for Georgia, gave a forthright speech about her life story [...]

The New New Deal: The Hidden Story of Change in the Obama Era by Michael Grunwald Simon and Schuster, 528 pp. Twenty-eight days after taking the oath of office, Barack [...]

The level of arrogance Pastor Maldonado showed to his former team, Williams, was shocking. His lack of respect was unbelievable for someone who crashed with such alarming regularity. Williams as [...]

With reference to your article on New Holland's sales performance (Company News, 7th November), I would like to clarify that although the 254,000 £ Asia sales was quoted, quite rightly, [...]