Our former writing fellow and later Prospect senior staff writer Ezra Klein is one of the most influential alums of this magazine, now with a column at The New York Times. Klein is ingenious, ...

A progressive tax is a system where the tax rate increases as taxable income rises, requiring higher earners to pay a greater ...

Teddy Roosevelt’s busting of monopolistic trusts and his Square Deal for average citizens were examples of progressivism. When the stock market crashed in 1929 and the Depression followed, it was ...

After more than 20 years of costly military adventures, the United States has failed to root out extremism or bring liberal democracy to the oppressed. Thousands of American soldiers have lost their ...

Ed Koch was angry—and perhaps a bit embarrassed. It was the spring of 1986, and his Parks Department had wasted millions of taxpayer dollars trying to rehabilitate Central Park’s Wollman Rink. At the ...

This year, voters in the United Kingdom will head to the polls as Keir Starmer’s Labour Party seeks to win power from the Conservative Party for the first time since 1997. It is difficult to overstate ...