And yet we keep proclaiming how special we are. As Webb puts it, “Hamlet got one thing right: we’re a piece of work.” For example, hummingbirds can see colors that human beings are not even able to ...

Industrial policy has traditionally been conceived of as a strategic tool that nations use to gain “market share” in the context of international trade. Over the last five decades or so, the focus of ...

What can we learn from other countries where democracy has suffered? Alas, not as much as these authors believe.

Illustration by Richard A. Chance. How should the United States respond to the many challenges facing democracy both at home and around the world? This was the question that the Aspen Strategy Group ...

is an economist, and sometimes a consultant. He is the author of Lying For Money and Decisions Nobody Made (Profile Books, coming next year).

is a co-founder of organizations combating the financial secrecy system, including Global Financial Integrity and the Financial Accountability and Corporate Transparency Coalition (FACT), and built ...

January 2021 was a very long year ago. Then, many of us who have long advocated for a post-neoliberal economics were increasingly optimistic. Joe Biden, as a newly elected President, embraced and ...

is a book critic in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His latest book, Only a Voice: Essays, has just been published by Verso.