Editorial: History reminds us again and again that political change is not always achieved simply by removing a single individual from power.

While a majority of people express a commitment to most of our social and political institutions and the democratic form of governance enshrined in the U.S. Constitution, there are those who relish ...

The left and right don’t agree on much, but many on both sides do agree on one thing: the system is broken. Over the past decade, anti-system political movements have surged, from Brexit in 2015 to ...

Last month, the 2024 Nobel Prize in economics was awarded to three scholars, Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James Robinson, for “studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity.” ...

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