Homeless Jesus,” a bronze sculpture by Canadian artist Timothy Schmalz, was first installed near the University of Toronto in 2013. The statue is of a male human figure asleep on a park bench, covered ...

The Empire State Building, then the world’s tallest building at 102 stories, was completed in 1931. Building that majestic structure, later called one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World by the ...

The United States stands out among Western democracies for its extreme partisan political polarization. It has reached the level of “pernicious polarization,” by which I mean a division of society ...

Book Reviews When Money Meets Jesus How Christian nationalism’s takeover of the GOP made Donald Trump inevitable. By Adele M. Stan from Spring 2020, No. 56 – 14 MIN READ ...

Until the late 1970s, a rough balance of power existed between democracy and capitalism. Can today’s capitalists be more like yesterday’s?

For the past year and a half, the United States has been battling the COVID-19 pandemic along with the ensuing economic fallout. Now, Congress and the Biden-Harris Administration’s biggest task, along ...

Arguments ‘Homo Economicus’ Must Die Nick Hanauer’s rousing speech on the lies on which neoliberalism is built. By Nick Hanauer from October 1, 2018, 6:35 pm – 10 MIN READ Tagged Business Economics ...

Bidenomics is the biggest shift in U.S. economic policy since Roosevelt and Reagan; how rebuilding the middle class will transform our economy and politics.

Features Housing and the Working Poor Sky-high rents, not enough affordable homes—that’s our housing crisis in a nutshell. Here’s one idea to help the millions who can barely afford to keep a roof ...

Arguments Think Tanks in an Authoritarian Moment When the “war of ideas” meets the war on knowledge, how can ideas come out on top? By Mark Schmitt from July 16, 2025, 4:12 pm – 12 MIN READ Tagged ...

How on earth do we return authoritarian true believers to civil society? There are short-term and long-term answers.

The barbaric treatment of Haitian refugees by the U.S. government has exposed the incoherence of the Biden Administration’s approach to immigration and the racist roots of our immigration system. By ...