Can we reconcile the belated attention to rape on campus with due process?
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Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Legacy of Carl Levin
Corporate America will cheer the Michigan senator’s retirement. His investigations have flagged hundreds of billions in offshore tax evasion.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
One Man’s Battle Against the Crude-Oil ‘Bomb Trains’ Running Through His Backyard
Ed Ruszel didn’t set out to be an environmental activist. Then Valero Energy announced a plan to bring 3 million gallons of tar-sands crude—every day—within feet of his family business.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
Music and Memory
The dangerous state of Zionism invites us to cherish the diaspora as Jewish cultural and religious homeland.
Posted inLaw and Justice
How Walmart and Home Depot Are Buying Huge Political Influence
Walmart and Home Depot are ranked among the top 100 political donors overall for the period since 1989, putting their fingerprints on tax and labor law.
Posted inBooks
Fair Work Schedules: The Next New Human Right
A great cultural transformation is driving demands for workers’ control of job schedules.
Posted inAmerica and the World
ISIL, Hamas and the Future of Israel
The arrival of ISIL makes an Israeli-Palestinian settlement even more urgent. But Hamas is not ISIL, and ISIL is not Hamas.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Report: South Urgently Needs an ‘Infrastructure of Opportunity’
At the root of the uncertainty lies a pervasive doubt: whether the South can sustain the American Dream of each generation moving up and doing better than previous generations.
Posted inEducation in America
The Teacher Wars: How the Idealism of LBJ and RFK Set the Stage for Today’s Education Strife
The National Teacher Corps of the 1960s and 1970s paved the way for Teach For America
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Black America’s Promised Land: Why I Am Still a Racial Optimist
Hope and pessimism have defined two traditions of American thinking about race. Fully acknowledging recent setbacks, the author makes the case for the tradition of hope.
