What did the era amount to? One thing is certain: It wasn’t a revolution.
Books
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When Liberalism Came Apart
Two new books about the late 1960s provide grist for thinking about political turbulence today.
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American Maelstrom
A new book by Michael Cohen brings back the pivotal presidential election of 1968, which first revealed the fault lines that still define American politics today.
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Shall We Be Released?
The mass folly of mass incarceration and the road back to sane prison policy.
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It Didn’t Start with Stonewall
A new history deepens our understanding of the origins of the gay rights movement and the transformation it has brought about.
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Leading from the Left
For Ted Kennedy, political leadership meant moving public opinion—not chasing after an elusive center.
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The War on the Poor
The welfare reform of the 1990s left millions of Americans near destitution.
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Security for a Precarious Workforce
What will it take, economically and politically, to broadly regularize employment?
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Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Caricature of Black Reality
Ta-Nehisi Coates has written the race book of the year. Too bad it’s disempowering.
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How the Bankers Destroyed the Dream
The mortgage collapse was an entirely avoidable crisis—a brew of elite financial lobbying and bad policy.