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Race or Class? The Future of Affirmative Action on the College Campus
Jun 22, 2014Focusing college-student recruitment on poor neighborhoods can overlook middle-class African Americans entitled to affirmative action.
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Piety and Politics in America
May 15, 2015The tension between religiosity and secular government goes back to the nation’s founding.
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It's All About the Money
May 21, 2015How America became preoccupied with higher education’s bottom line.
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Today's GOP: The Party of Jefferson Davis -- Not Lincoln
Apr 10, 2015If you think the Civil War is over, think again.
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Historian as History-Maker: Isabel Wilkerson Calls All of America to Account for Racial Injustice
Feb 28, 2015The acclaimed author of The Warmth of Other Suns is not about to let the North off the hook. A conversation with the chronicler of the Great Migration.
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The Great Party Switch
Feb 18, 2015From 1968 through 1992, Republicans tended to control the White House. Since then, they’ve more frequently controlled Congress, which has moved them even more to the right.
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What Women Need
Feb 17, 2015Can women translate symbolic victories into durable progress on multiple fronts, from financial status to physical safety?
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A Talent for Storytelling
Feb 17, 2015Rick Perlstein tells how Reagan imagined his way into the American psyche.
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Fair Work Schedules: The Next New Human Right
Nov 23, 2014A great cultural transformation is driving demands for workers' control of job schedules.
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The End of the Lavender Ghetto
Nov 14, 2014As gays and lesbians gain acceptance, they are moving away from the old neighborhoods that long epitomized gay culture.
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Still Nader After All These Years
Aug 29, 2014It is heartening that Nader, at age 80, is still biased towards hope more than cynicism.
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How Did Racist Right-Wing Fantasy Presented as Truth Come to Top the New York Times Bestseller List?
Aug 22, 2014Calling African Americans "culturally backward" and arguing against the public accommodations section of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, Dinesh D'Souza soars to the top of the chart.
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A Question of Character: Craig Shirley's Scurrilous Attack on Liberal Historian Rick Perlstein
Aug 13, 2014An assault on the character of a progressive intellectual invites an assessment of the attacker's character—not to mention his client list.
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Searching for the Next Great Conservative Novel
Jul 02, 2014Adam Bellow urges conservatives to support right-wing fiction. Best of luck to him: Here's why it won't be easy.
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Astronaut Sally Ride and the Burden of Being The First
Jun 19, 2014America's woman space pioneer paid a price back on Earth.
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The Road to Marriage Equality: Boies and Olson’s Wedding March
Jun 17, 2014What the limelight-loving legal team did and didn’t win for same-sex couples' right to marry.
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New Film About Liberal Gadfly Gore Vidal Totally Misses the Point
Jun 06, 2014Gore Vidal rejoiced in making his readers' lives more complicated by baring the power drives underneath our political pieties. The United States of Amnesia does him, and its audience, no justice.
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Is 'The Fault In Our Stars' Author John Green His Generation's Pop Philosopher?
Jun 01, 2014The author and phenom, with a bajillion Internet viewers, has built an avid Internet following with pep talks on how to be good. What does it mean to live like one of Green's "Nerdfighters"?
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