Margaret O'Mara

A review of three new books that in various ways track the rise of the "Professional Managerial Class."

The question of how to fix the tech industry is now inseparable from the question of how to fix late 20th century capitalism.

Tech was meant to help us transcend our most intractable problems. What went wrong?

The same legal and cultural struggles will await the next critical infrastructural technology, and the next.

American expansionism goes beyond territory.

What happened in California in the 1970s played an outsized role in creating the world we live in today – both in the United States and globally.

On the promises and perils of very recent history.

What's behind the name of the state? And who was our first president, really?

The Trump administration appears ready to invoke the Defense Production Act to speed manufacture of essential goods like face masks.