Politics & Economics

Conspiracy theories are as old as politics. But conspiracists today have introduced something new--conspiracy without theory. And the new conspirac...

Political equality is the most basic tenet of democracy. Yet in America and other democratic nations, those with political power have special acces...

American Prophets sheds critical new light on the lives and thought of seven major prophetic figures in twentieth-century America whose social acti...

Early in the twenty-first century, a quiet revolution occurred. For the first time, the major developed economies began to invest more in intangibl...

What is it like to be a Westerner teaching political philosophy in an officially Marxist state? Why do Chinese sex workers sing karaoke with their ...

Life expectancy in the United States has recently fallen for three years in a row--a reversal not seen since 1918 or in any other wealthy nation in...

Bitcoin may appear to be a revolutionary form of digital cash without precedent or prehistory. In fact, it is only the best-known recent experiment...

The most famous scientist of the twentieth century, Albert Einstein was also one of the century's most outspoken political activists. Deeply engage...

Marcus Cicero, Rome's greatest statesman and orator, was elected to the Roman Republic's highest office at a time when his beloved country was thre...

How to Win an Election is an ancient Roman guide for campaigning that is as up-to-date as tomorrow's headlines. In 64 BC when idealist Marcus Cicer...

All complex and large-scale societies are organized along certain hierarchies, but the concept of hierarchy has become almost taboo in the modern w...

In 2013, just two years after the popular overthrow of Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian military ousted the country’s first democratically elected presi...

Stories people tell-about financial confidence or panic, housing booms, or Bitcoin-can go viral and powerfully affect economies, but such narrative...

Globalization has profoundly shaped the world we live in, yet its rise was neither inevitable nor planned. It is also one of the most contentious i...

translated by Ethan Rundell When Muhammad died in 632 without a male heir, Sunnis contended that the choice of a successor should fall to his close...

For the Western world, the period from 1760 to 1800 was the great revolutionary era in which the outlines of the modern democratic state came into ...

What is wrong with today's banking system? The past few years have shown that risks in banking can impose significant costs on the economy. Many cl...

Westerners tend to divide the political world into "good" democracies and "bad" authoritarian regimes. But the Chinese political model does not fit...

What is it that transforms a simple object, an idea, or a promise to pay into an asset that creates wealth? Katharina Pistor explains how, behind c...

Since the mid-2000s, public opinion and debate in China have become increasingly common and consequential, despite the ongoing censorship of speech...

Once America's "arsenal of democracy", Detroit is now the symbol of the American urban crisis. In this reappraisal of America's racial and economic...

Barack Obama's election as the first African American president seemed to usher in a new era, and he took office in 2009 with great expectations. B...

Modern presidents regularly appeal over the heads of Congress to the people at large to generate support for public policies. The Rhetorical Presid...

Originally published in 1964, The Struggle for Equality presents an incisive and vivid look at the abolitionist movement and the legal basis it pro...

From the Industrial Revolution to the age of artificial intelligence, The Technology Trap takes a sweeping look at the history of technological pro...

Alan Krueger was one of the most respected economists of his generation, advising two presidents and helping to instill greater empiricism in econo...

White Backlash provides an authoritative assessment of how immigration is reshaping the politics of the nation. Using an array of data and analysis...