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Monica Potts on closing the graduation gap for those attending less selective schools: Elite colleges have the institutional support and the incentives to keep students enrolled, whatever their income level. In 2006, researchers at the Consortium on Chicago School Research followed Chicago public school graduates and found that students with a 3.5 grade point average […]

Matthew Duss dissects a new book on the nuclear partnership between Israel and apartheid-era South Africa: Sasha Polakow-Suransky‘s book is the result of an extraordinary amount of research, carried out over six years and including a number of personal interviews with aging Israeli and South African sources. The author was also able to make use […]

Mark Schmitt tells us what we can actually learn from Glenn Beck: Beck‘s blackboard schemes are fiction, of course, part of what the writer Alexander Zaitchik, in a superb new book about Beck, calls “the oceanic audacity of his self-serving ignorance.” None of the people he fingers are socialists; few have more than a tangential […]

Monica Potts talks with Priscilla Gonzalez, director of Domestic Workers United, about a New York state bill to protect domestic workers: What’s the most moving story you heard while lobbying for this bill? Every worker has a story that’s moving. Every worker has suffered. It’s hard, there are certainly cases that have been severe, cases […]

Terence Samuel argues that Democrats will only get credit for their accomplishments if they claim it: Still, after having passed a stimulus package, health care, and financial regulation by extremely narrow margins in the Senate, Democrats must have a sense of how crucial retaining control of the Senate will be to advancing their agenda and […]

Monica Potts examines how Obama has helped mobilize African American voters — and white Americans motivated by racial animosity: While political junkies follow Blanche Lincoln‘s primary runoff in Arkansas, another congressional runoff is shaping up to be a historic airing of the state’s racial politics. One of the two candidates still in the race to […]