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.

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

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.”

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

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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

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Remembering a pathbreaker for free media

The modern Republican Party has always exploited and encouraged extremism.

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