Fall 2025

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 …

American mothers are under attack again. The new attack is not like that of the 1950s and 1960s, which faulted stay-at-home mothers for “smother love,” “momism,” and schizophrenogenic behavior that turned their sons psychotic. It is aimed instead at women …

Richard Rothstein’s Class and Schools: Using Social, Economic, and Education Reform to Close the BlackWhite Achievement Gap

Fifty years later, NAACP lawyer Jack Greenberg reflects on Brown v. Board of Education: “Brown went beyond school integration, raising a legal and moral imperative that was influential even when it was not obeyed.”

I take my text from the noted political theorist Jon Stewart of The Daily Show, who said, “When the Supreme Court that hand picks you to be President tells you that you’ve just overstepped your bounds . . . you’ve …

The latest addition to the Mall in Washington, the new National World War II Memorial, is by architectural standards very modest. It deliberately defers to its more famous neighbors, the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial. Its plaza, located on …

Has the Bush administration properly balanced security and liberty? Let’s address this question through two routes. 1. When national security is threatened, any nation is likely to reduce liberty in some way. Abraham Lincoln suspended habeas corpus. During World War …

Jason DeParle’s American Dream

The threat of terrorist attacks on the scale of those of September 11, 2001, or worse cannot be denied. That reality calls at a minimum for a reevaluation of the balance between liberty and security. If a diminution in liberty …

Thomas Frank’s What’s the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America

Yes, the Bush administration does pose a serious danger to basic liberties and constitutional democracy. Do the NRA and the ACLU agree on what that threat is? I doubt it. Each organization represents a pole in the partisan battle that …