That discretion does not, however, give states leeway to change the underlying federal standards, including the imposition of ...

Know Your Enemy is a podcast about the American right co-hosted by Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell. Read more about it here ...

The Chinese government has rebuffed bold consumption stimulus policy. But boosting domestic household spending is precisely ...

W.W. Norton, 2024, 176 pp. Over the past eight years, a series of major document leaks has shone a spotlight on tax havens and their users. The Panama Papers, made up of 11.5 million documents from ...

Some have suggested that young men are drawn to Andrew Tate because they suffer from a dearth of social contact. Yet men go to Tate not to alleviate loneliness but to intensify it. Zoë Hu ▪ ...

The chances for durable peace may depend on Trump’s whims. Joshua Leifer ▪ January 23, 2025 A view of the Gaza Strip from Israel on January 19 (Amir Levy/Getty Images) On Sunday, after a delay ...

With every extreme weather event, housing is damaged and belongings are lost. Insurance is supposed to be the safety net that helps people to recover and restart their lives. But as major disasters ...

Matt and Sam talk to historian Erik Baker about his new book, Make Your Own Job: How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America. This is a fascinating episode that takes up figures that the ...

It is hard to call people into a political project that is deeply incompatible with their sense of what it means to act morally in the world. Patrick Iber ▪ Winter 2025 Art by Tabitha Arnold ...

After decades of relative stagnation, American housing policy is now several years into a period of radical change and experimentation. In California, where I am policy director for the state-level ...