Take the CEOs of our leading artificial intelligence companies at their word, and they all believe that a combination of guardrails and speed bumps is necessary to make sure their products don’t do vast damage. What stands in the way, in their telling, is a coordination problem: unilateral action by one company will...

Big cities need big ideas, both because they drive concrete improvement and progress, and because they create a sense of excitement and possibility about the future, which, in and of itself, helps attract and retain new generations of city-dwellers. That was the thrust of an essay I wrote for the Daily News upon...

In the aftermath of the 2006 midterm elections, then-New York Times (now Rolling Stone) political reporter Matt Bai wrote a book, The Argument, about the conflict raging within the Democratic Party between its established powers and a cohort of bloggers, donors, and grassroots activists who had emerged, in large...

In the first two parts of The Fight Back Blueprint, I outlined strategies that Democrats should pursue to slow and stall Donald Trump’s agenda in Congress and ensure accountability for misconduct and lawbreaking. It is important, though, that we also think about the long term and strengthen laws that Trump has used...