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Congress hiked the nation’s top-bracket tax rate to around 90% for two decades to see the emergence in the United States of the world’s first mass middle class.

In this book, author Hamid writes about what he calls a "democratic dilemma" facing U.S. policymakers, who, he says, "want democracy in theory but do not necessarily want its outcomes in practice.”

Wealthy partisans aligned with the GOP are going for that Hispanic vote in a big, big way. They intend to use the same tools that have turned state after state reliably red since the 1980s: radio & TV

Peru’s deepening crisis is a cautionary tale about democracies that fail to deliver for ordinary people.

By 2050 electric vehicles could require huge amounts of lithium for their batteries, causing damaging expansions of mining

Democracy Now interviews director Santiago Mitre about “Argentina, 1985,” his dramatization of the Trial of the Juntas, when a civilian court prosecuted Argentina’s former military leaders for brutal crimes committed during the U.S.-backed right-wing military dictatorship from 1976 to 1983. The film just won a Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture in a Non-English Language and is also shortlisted for an Oscar for best international film.

Remembering a pathbreaker for free media

U.K. workers rise up against Conservatives’ attempt to hollow out their right to strike.

Biden’s industrial policies represent a stunning ideological reversal. The harder part will be making them work