Its potential to enhance civic engagement crucially depends on what policymakers want to learn from the public.

Generative AI tools, released by a handful of powerful tech companies, are remaking the economy, society, and human life as ...

In September 2023, Joe Biden became the first sitting president to walk a picket line when he joined striking United Auto Workers in Wayne County, Michigan. A decade earlier, under the Obama ...

I am baffled, as I was in 2016, as to why so many liberals are still shocked by Trump’s victory—and why, in their efforts to dissect what happened, they can’t get beyond their incredulity that so many ...

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From 2016 to 2020 Donald J. Trump served as forty-fifth president of the United States; now, he has secured his reelection and will assume office once again as president number forty-seven. It was ...

Daniel Berliner is Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the London School of Economics. A political and literary forum, independent and nonprofit since 1975. Registered 501(c)(3) ...

My grandmother was a good Catholic who didn’t go to college and had eight children. Her oldest child went to college and had one child, me. Your own family probably fits this pattern. In a decline ...

Paolo Giordano is an Italian writer. His latest novel is Tasmania, published in October 2024. Nihon Hidankyo, winner of the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, makes us see what we cannot: the consequences of our ...