While this call for moonshots is stirring, it ultimately says too little about how to turn this vision into reality.

The “moonshots” proposed could not be accomplished without a transformation of politics as we know it.

Industrial policy must not lose sight of underlying economic issues.

Setting a mission requires bold leadership, but following through requires learning and iterative experimentation.

The answer cannot lie in the sound creation of an “industrial policy,” however ambitious. We need wholesale structural reform.

While missions are important, even more important are new institutions that will cut a path across them.

Public policy needs to make some hard choices about priorities and strategies.

The fight over the American Jobs Plan reflects a long history of competing visions of public works—and, most of all, who should benefit from rebuilding.

The menthol cigarette citizen’s petition recalls the lost political tradition of petition democracy, when not only could the complaints of any citizen get a hearing, but that hearing would occur publicly—in Congress.

Narendra Modi’s government has used lockdown to force further neoliberalization and continue its assault on pro-democracy activists.

Failures in prosecuting the businessmen who profited from the Nazi war machine show just how far postwar Europe and America were willing to go in the Cold War quest to protect capitalism.

As a space for democratic deliberation and decision-making, the jury box still has the potential to shift the criminal legal system. But, first, we must change who is able to serve on a jury.

A proposed French bill says so. But, strictly speaking, there can be no such thing as blasphemy within the terms of secular public order.

A civil war in the northern region of Tigray broke out in November. Denial within the international community has prevented much-needed humanitarian aid.

Forgiveness is a public good, but it is doled out unevenly. Justice demands we widen its reach beyond the select few.

If we are to emerge from this era of crisis, we need legal thinking that operates on fundamentally different presumptions.

A recent report neglects to mention how France forced Arab Jews to adopt the European persona of Jew as citizen and see Arabs and Muslims as others.

The Netflix series Dead to Me suggests that we might get closer to justice by forgiving each other and ourselves for the sometimes literally fatal flaw of being human.

We cannot simply put the past behind us. The framework of transitional justice offers a promising path forward.

Labor activists once understood time to be a checking mechanism on market activity. In our own era of uncontrolled working hours, this is a vision of freedom worth recapturing.

On Ashura, Shi’a Muslims grieve the Prophet’s grandson. But with Iran crippled by COVID-19 and U.S. sanctions, it was also an occasion this year to mourn the country’s deaths from disease and despair.

The Brazilian president’s offensive against universities threatens democracy and recalls the dark years of the country’s dictatorship.