The "new liberal economics" is the key to understanding Hillary Clinton's policies

The Great Recession shattered liberal views on economics. Here’s what’s replacing them.

The bonfire of Noam Chomsky: journalist Tom Wolfe targets the acclaimed linguist

In a rollicking but flawed book, Wolfe argues that Chomsky's theories about language and the brain fall apart under scrutiny.

The intense debates surrounding Hamilton don't diminish the musical — they enrich it

It's a sign of the play's richness that it has inspired sophisticated criticism.

How the sun, our greatest friend and enemy, could knock out the internet

150 years ago a "coronal mass ejection" from the sun set telegraph machines ablaze. We're even more vulnerable today.

There's a simple fix for Obamacare's current woes: the public option

Insurance companies are retreating from state-run exchanges. "Medicare for more" could fill the gap.

How political idealism leads us astray

A new work of political philosophy argues that there's no alternative to attacking one injustice at a time.

The Republicans waged a 3-decade war on government. They got Trump.

Trumpism is the culmination of a proud political party’s steady descent into a deeply destructive and dysfunctional state.

Bernie Sanders is right the economy is rigged. He’s dead wrong about why.

The economy gets rigged when people protect their jobs through regulation.

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I worked in the CIA under Bush. Obama is right to not say "radical Islam."

The term adds zero to our understanding of the problem, and offends people we need on our side.

Basic income: the world’s simplest plan to end poverty, explained

What if everyone got money just for being alive?