Immigration restrictionists love to quote Milton Friedman's line that "[y]ou cannot simultaneously have a welfare state and free immigration." There are lots of other rationales for immigration ...

Rich welfare states promise security from cradle to grave, but that promise becomes harder to keep when large inflows of people arrive faster than economies and institutions can adjust. The political ...

Swedish social democracy produced one of the most humane societies in history. That wouldn’t have happened without a militant labor movement and a working-class political party.