President and CEO of NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council).

To unleash America’s energy potential, we need reforms that are different, and go far deeper, than the permitting proposals Congress is considering right now.

Truman, American Jews, and the Origins of the Arab/Israeli Conflict.

The Revolutionary Power of Taxation in American History by Vanessa S. Williamson • Basic Books • 2025 • 352 pages • $32 ...

Capitalism Alone: The Future of the System that Rules the World by Branko Milanovic • Harvard University Press • 2019 • 304 pages • $29.95 In certain quarters of the United States it is taken for ...

Stating the obvious: Ours is a government (and thus a society) in crisis. All three branches of our federal government are led by men who do not believe in pluralism. Compromise is for the weak; ...

America has a billionaire problem. When just 300,000 households control $40 trillion, more than five times what the federal government spent last year, the result is the systematic purchase of our ...

Stable, consolidated democracies are defined, in large part, by the durability of their formal institutions. Citizens, elected officials, and political parties engage in politics expecting democratic ...

Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty; Translated by Arthur Goldhammer • Belknap/Harvard University Press • 2014 • 696 pages • $39.95 Once in a great while, a heavy academic tome ...

Are democracy and capitalism compatible? Or, to put it differently: What made democracy and capitalism compatible for decades, even centuries, and what strains this relationship today? The end of the ...

When we think about economic growth, we generally think about inventions and technology—from the combustion engine to the iPhone—and about the effects of capital accumulation, like big dams or ...

I hear that question a lot from Delawareans—nurses and cops, dental hygienists and mechanics. I also heard it plenty in 2024 as I campaigned for Kamala Harris and Senate Democrats. Elected ...