Spain has problems. Twenty-two percent of its labor force is unemployed, a rate exceeded nowhere in Europe. Reindustrialization is more than a sight down the road. Heroin has spawned a bloodless crime wave by desperate, often apologetic, unemployed youth. Bloodletting …
We are at a major juncture in Soviet history. There is much potential for change. However, I stress the word potential because thus far in Gorbachev’s rule, it is much too early to speak about major change. First, the potential …
Sorting out the likely political consequences of the Iran-contra scandal is a difficult process. The scandal comes at a time when American politics have become exceptionally fluid, with the Democrats just beginning to regain their voice and the Republicans weakened …
Greed was once more the occasion for moralistic comment in the wake of last fall’s Ivan Boesky affair. Newsweek led its December 1 story with a quote from a Boesky commencement address at the University of California’s School of Business …
This book is about motherhood. Its main thrust is a call for a national policy that would support women as mothers. The author shows that the United States hardly has any such policy and in this respect differs sharply from …
It’s 1987. We’re celebrating the two hundredth anniversary of the drafting of the Constitution, and the Reagan administration has done much to make the occasion relevant. With a fine sense of timing, it’s gone public with the notion that the …
Now that “instant analysis” of the Howard Beach tragedy has given way to the criminal justice process and to the combination of symbolic appropriation and amnesia that envelops such events, we need to retrieve a few lessons about leadership from …
It is impossible to discuss U.S. defense policy without locating it within an examination of foreign policy in all its ramifications. A discussion that limits itself to questions of technology and hardware on the one hand, or grotesque costs on …
The Hanford Nuclear Reservation is located on the banks of the Columbia River in eastern Washington State. It is surrounded by fertile land that produces wheat, wine grapes, potatoes, apples, and cherries. The ground under Hanford is basalt, a porous …
Sitting in a pew at the Cedarview Methodist Church in Kingsport, I was chatting with Jennie Wilson, grandmother of two of the children in the Hawkins County school system who, through a trial this past July, won the right to …
1982: The Triumph-Adler typewriter company is on the skids, and its 9,000 employees told that they are about to be laid off 1983: The company holds one-sixth of the world market for electronic typewriters; its prices are down by 30 …
The author opposes the participation of socialists in the electoral politics of the Democratic party, arguing that such participation cannot advance socialist objectives since the Democratic party represents capitalist interests. Although it is intended to apply pressure from working people …
The U.S. health care non-system is inhuman and inefficient. Among major Western industrialized nations only the U.S. and South Africa do not uphold the principle that health is a human right. The major political and medical establishments say we have …
You need—said Oscar Wilde about the death of Dickens’s Little Nell—a heart of stone not to laugh. So too about Irangate, contragate, Reagangate.
I n the summer of 1964 July was “Hospitality Month” in Mississippi. But as the volunteers and staff of the Mississippi Summer Project began settling into the countryside, what they found waiting for them was, as one volunteer put it, …
