Government & Politics

In an exclusive interview, Benjamin Page discusses urgent reforms needed to tackle critical challenges, from undemocratic institutions to economic inequality.

Why did so many Dutch voters vote for the far-right Geert Wilders?

What sort of effective democratic political system does the United States want and need?

In accepting mass unemployment, post-communist governments and the democratic parties that constituted them removed the economic foundation for Poland’s democracy.

Mike Spence talks with Rob Johnson about his upcoming co-authored book “Permacrisis”, India and the G20, and bringing the world together to address our shared challenges.

On September 15, 2008, Lehman Brothers, a giant investment bank with a storied history, filed for bankruptcy. The shock was profound; world markets melted down.

By permitting business definitions of “efficiency” to leak over into the antitrust lexicon, antitrust scholars have done a great disservice

The bundle of sanctions was initially designed and imposed in haste, with little basis to assess historic performance.

In The Measure of Our Age, elder justice expert M.T. Connolly, who served as coordinator of the Department of Justice’s Elder Justice Initiative, offers both a warning and challenge: the systems we rely on to protect us as we age haven’t caught up to our longevity. Good news: we have the tools to build better ones.

Preface to the Japanese Edition of Golden Rule

What is the real reason Democratic party leaders go along with the debt ceiling ritual?

In his new book, “Plunder: Private Equity’s Plan To Pillage America,” Brendan Ballou, a federal prosecutor who served as Special Counsel for Private Equity in the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division, outlines the dangers of a trillion-dollar industry that hardly anyone understands. He explains how Americans can fight their harmful practices.

Sanctions on Russia are isomorphic to a strict policy of trade protection, industrial policy, and capital controls.

Despite the shock and the costs, the sanctions imposed on the Russian economy were in the nature of a gift.

INET Research on Financial Sector Weakness and Too Big to Fail