When It Comes to Kindles, Do You “Like” or Unlink?
Social reading will bring us together while restoring a long tradition in the history of the book. Still …
Ghosts of the Rio Grande
Every year hundreds of immigrants die along the U.S.-Mexico border. Too many are never identified.
Virginia’s New Dominion
How soon will changing demographics swamp old Virginia’s Republicans?
North Carolina’s Tug-of-War
What happens when a state becomes more progressive and more conservative at the same time?
Can Obama’s Organizing Army Take Texas?
Progressive Texans just might lead a Democratic revival in the ultimate red state. Here’s how.
The End of the Solid South
The region’s emerging majority is progressive. Its capitols are more conservative than ever. Something’s got to give.
Children of Color in the Persistent Downturn
At the peak of economic boom times in 2000, the U.S. child-poverty rate reached a historic low of 16.2 percent. Even then, UNICEF ranked the United States as having the second highest child-poverty rate out of 26 rich countries. The United States had a child-poverty rate twice Germany’s, five times Sweden’s, and nearly ten times…
A Shredded Safety Net
“I’m not concerned about the very poor. We have a safety net there.” -Mitt Romney, February 1, 2012 In 1996, the year that Congress passed and Bill Clinton signed welfare reform, fulfilling his campaign pledge to “end welfare as we know it,” there were 14.5 million poor children in the United States; 8.5 million children…
Cascading Effects of Parental Stress
Economic hardship reverberates through the family in multiple ways that harm children.
The Millennial Squeeze
It’s not Social Security deficits that are destroying the life chances of the young but a prolonged slump confounded by bad policies.
Children of the Great Collapse
The stimulus was great for poor kids while it lasted. Now even bare-bones aid is at risk.
The Wealthy Kids Are All Right
In a tough economy with dwindling social supports, children of privilege have a bigger head start than ever.
Greta Gerwig, Dancing with Herself
The anti-celebrity of the Frances Ha star
The New New Haven
How a union of Yale employees aligned itself with community activists and won control of a beleaguered city.
A River Runs Through It
Everyone agrees that the only way to fix the Gulf of Mexico dead zone—the largest off the United States—is to fix the Mississippi, but not everyone agrees how.
Bad Faith and Budget Politics
Obama has to do business with people who cannot be trusted to own up to their side of a deal.
Rediscovering Albert Hirschman
Resistance fighter. Development economist. Philosopher. A new biography of the thinker who redeemed political economy for liberals.
Ted Talk
The Tea Party doesn’t expect its politicians to get things done; it sends them to Washington to previent things from being done.
Sheryl Sandberg’s Can-Do Feminism
Why she’s a reformer in the church of meritocracy and not a heretic
