Introduction On July 29, 2003, two U.S. senators walked into a press conference and ended a Pentagon research program in a single news cycle. The program, called the Policy Analysis Market, would have let a small pool of registered traders buy and sell contracts on political and economic events in the Middle East. Within about 24 hours of the press...

Introduction Ninety-nine days remain before the November 3 general election, and the ballot voters will see in most of the country is not finished being written. The 2026 primary season opened March 3 in Texas and North Carolina and does not close until September 15 in Delaware. Between now and then, voters in roughly a dozen and a half states...

Introduction On Sunday, July 26, Democratic Socialists of America national co-chair Megan Romer sat for a rapid true-or-false round with Fox News Sunday host Shannon Bream and affirmed, one after another, the most structurally ambitious planks in her organization’s new national program: abolishing the U.S. Senate, replacing the presidency and the Supreme Court, abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement, phasing out...