Congress’s refusal to provide sufficient funding has pitted the nation’s passenger rail network against state agencies.
Cities & Communities
Posted inEconomic Policy
Tickets Out of Poverty?
Housing voucher recipients can move to better neighborhoods only if states and localities break down suburban barriers.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Oregon Militia Standoff Spotlights Federal-Tribal Quandary over Artifacts
Leaders of Oregon’s Paiute tribe are demanding that authorities investigate whether the armed occupiers have stolen or damaged any of the protected artifacts housed at the wildlife refuge.
Posted inWorking in America
Labor Goes South
Can the movement rebuild itself below the Mason-Dixon line, and change Southern politics in the process?
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Can Democrats Channel America’s Discontent?
The party has moved left in response to hard times. That should help it at the polls—but will it?Â
Posted inCivil Rights in America
The Likely Persistence of a White Majority
How Census Bureau statistics have misled thinking about the American future.Â
Posted inEducation in America
Criminal Background Checks Screen College Applicants
More than half of American colleges and universities are using criminal background checks to screen applicants, potentially affecting college aid and tax credits.
Posted inEducation in America
In Free Speech Turnabout, Public Officials Seek to Silence Students
A spate of student protests over racial discrimination on college campuses this fall and winter has triggered a backlash from critics who cast student demands as an affront to free speech. But a dustup this week over legislation introduced in the Missouri legislature suggests that students’ own First Amendment protections may be at risk. On […]
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Will the DOJ’s Chicago Police Investigation Lead to Real Reform?
Earlier this month the Chicago Police Department joined a growing list of law enforcement agencies around the nation under investigation by the Department of Justice for possible civil rights violations. The announcement of the Justice probe came on the heels of the November release of a video showing white Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke […]
Posted inLaw and Justice
Koch Campaign Strains Criminal Justice Coalition
Until recently, progressives have largely embraced the involvement of the billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch in the push for criminal justice reform, including changes in mandatory minimum sentencing laws. Before conservative activists embraced the issue, the crisis of mass incarceration had largely languished on the back burner. But the involvement of the Kochs and […]
