Vox founder Ezra Klein’s ‘Why We’re Polarized’ analyzes the social and cultural forces that have split us apart, and where we go from here.
Books
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(Un)forgivable
Why do some offenders get a fresh start while others receive harsh, one-size-fits-all sentencing?
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
What Did Hoffa Want?
Martin Scorsese’s new movie and a Harvard professor’s new book provide a picture, but only partial explanations, of the Teamster leader’s ultimately suicidal rage.
Posted inPolitics
Taking Back Rural America
Democrats have faltered in rural areas for many years now. A new book offers a road map to reverse the trend.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Building the People’s Banks
Establishing financial institutions and regulations that work for middle- and low-income Americans is possible. We just have to do it.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
The Baldwin-Buckley Debate on Civil Rights
Nicholas Buccola discusses his book ‘The Fire Is Upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate Over Race in America,’ which explores their momentous 1965 discussion at Cambridge University in England.
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Can We Fix the College Inequality Problem?
Two new books focus on the struggles of low-income students not just to get into college but to get through it.
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Is Our Economists Learning?
The economics profession has a lot to answer for, but even its sharpest thinkers seem too wedded to a disproven pre–financial crisis mindset.
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Reckoning With White Supremacy
After the Civil War, equality meant different things for blacks and whites.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Sketchy Rehabilitation of George W. Bush
The Kennedy Center’s exhibition of paintings by the war-making president shows how quickly Washington can forget—and the big money that eases such forgetting.
