Career-minded feminists intent on devaluing caregiving should instead be doing its opposite—increasing its currency among men and women.
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Posted inHealth and Social Policy
The Quest for Community (Again)
Somewhere between the capitalist’s market and the citizen’s state lies the lost land of community, sought after by humane conservatives, liberals, and social democrats alike. Herewith a modest progressive agenda for repairing some of the damage moder
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Talking Past Each Other: Black and White Languages of Race
Blacks and whites do not just disagree about the prevalence of racism; they have different understandings of what racism is. Bridging the gap requires a new look at the language of race and ethnicity in America.
Posted inWorking in America
Is the Strike Dead?
The workers who lost the 1892 Homestead Strike would find the situation today all too familiar: employers using strike replacements to destroy labor’s most potent weapon.
Posted inEconomic Policy
From “Projects” to Communities: How to Redeem Public Housing
Saving public housing will require more than bootstrap lectures and selling off units to tenants. To transform housing projects into safe communities requires a new balance of rights and responsibilities—and real resources.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Quiet Success: Where Managed School Integration Works
Despite a skeptical Supreme Court and a growing separatist movement, many communities across the country are showing that a flexible approach to busing is still the best way to integrate schools.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Liberalism, Socialism, and Democracy
What, if anything, can be usefully salvaged from the socialist tradition, now that communism lies in final disgrace? Paul Starr argued in these pages last fall that four developments — the implosion of communism, the collapse of efforts to reform communism from within, the failure of socialism in the Third World, and the shift of […]
