The Bush administration tends to view human rights and security as a zero-sum game. Because the United States faces a serious terrorist threat, it believes that some rights must be restricted. This analysis has some intuitive appeal, but is it …
Whose responsibility are children? In twenty-first-century America, the answer too often is “their parents.” Although politicians and pundits frequently make pious pronouncements calling children “our best hope,” “our future,” and “our nation’s most valuable resource,” mouthing such sentiments is a …
On the Front Lines of Union Organizing
The slanting of intelligence estimates, early plans for the war in Iraq concealed from the Congress and from the secretary of state, internal memos to create a rationale for torture and the abrogation of due process-it would be hard to …
The First Hundred Days of a New Administration
History extends to national administrations confronted by war or national emergency a certain presumption that transgressions against constitutional democracy will be temporary. Anxiety about these trespasses normally fades, with some belated apology, as the crisis itself passes. The examples range …
John Barnard’s American Vanguard: the United Auto Workers During the Reuther Years, 1935-1970, and Jonathan Cutler’s Labor’s Time: Shorter Hours, the UAW, and the Struggle for American Unionism
Is the United States facing a constitutional crisis? We posed the following question to a group of prominent writers and intellectuals who represent a range of political opinion: Many people, as politically diverse as members of the National Rifle Association …
Women and the Expanding Workweek
Living last fall in Sweden, I often felt as if I were in the richest country in the world. In my two months there, I never saw a boarded-up window or dilapidated house. Cell phones were ubiquitous, carried by everyone …
Because no act of terrorism has yet destroyed a liberal democracy but acts of parliament have closed a few, Americans should ask if the new U.S. policies, laws, and practices in reaction to the attacks of September 11, 2001, are …
The Millennium Challenge Accounts
Seymour Martin Lipset and Noah M. Meltz’s The Paradox of American Unionism: Why Americans Like Unions More than Canadians Do But Join Much Less
The insurgency in the Darfur region of western Sudan began virtually unnoticed in February 2003; it has over the past year precipitated the first great episode of genocidal destruction in the twenty-first century. The victims are the African tribal groups …
We focus this quarter on three issues central to the upcoming election, though they haven’t been getting the attention they deserve. The first is the foreign policy of the United States over the next four years-not just, what should be …
