The Income Gap and Its Causes  

Income inequality in the United States is growing with alarming speed. The biggest beneficiaries of this trend are those who least need it, the super-rich, while the most severe victims are those who can least afford it, children. As Leonard …



Health Care: Some New Proposals  

The disruption caused by our chaotic medical system has reached such proportions that mainstream medical thought is beginning to call for a major revision of health services. As costs sprout upward the already limited care for low-income patients is further …



Double Jeopardy  

Julius Lester is one of the tiny number of blacks to convert to Judaism, thereby placing himself in double jeopardy. Lovesong, the autobiographical tale of Lester’s journey from minister’s son to Jewish convert, shows him beset by prejudice and misunderstanding …



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