Detroit’s all-black academies are neither as bad as the critics claim nor as uplifting as their defenders insist. Considering the alternatives, they are worth a try.
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Posted inCivil Rights in America
The Gender Gap Mystique
Women are newly influential in politics, but those who court the gender gap on the cheap will not succeed. Women’s interests, issues, and voting preferences are every bit as complex as men’s — and demand equal respect.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Myth of the New Democrat
There isn’t much new or Democratic about the New Democrats. They preach the same brand of conservative politics that has run this country into the ground.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Left’s Obsessive Opposition
My liberal friends are being too hard on Bill Clinton. His mandate and congressional majority are wafer thin, and he’s doing well with what he has. Would you rather have George Bush?
Posted inLaw and Justice
Lani Guinier’s Constitution
Guinier’s critics were only half right. She is a political radical–but no quota queen. As a constitutionalist, she was neither separatist nor undemocratic. She would have gotten along nicely with James Madison.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
The New Immigration and the Old Civil Rights
The new immigration infuses America with new minority groups. This spells trouble for the old strategies of black uplift. New coalitions will require new concepts of disadvantage, affirmative action, and desert.
Posted inAmerica and the World
Going South
NAFTA defenders say Mexico can’t lure high-wage jobs away, but they are already heading across the border — and the treaty will only make matters worse.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Coming Budget Battle
T he passage of President Clinton’s budget, marked by its one-half trillion in deficit reduction, is already restoring respect for the administration. Clinton will be tempted to move on to other issues. The urgent need to make good on health care reform and the generally sour nature of budget discussions will add to this impulse. […]
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Blood Knots
Our society and our laws have an outrageous biological bias. The author’s own odyssey suggests why adoption is a much-scorned but often superior alternative to reproductive heroics.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Money Talks, Reform Walks
Last time around, campaign finance reform failed because it lacked public financing. Twenty years later, Congress seems determined to make the same mistake.
