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To understand everything that happens in Latin America in relation to the United States is to brush aside inconvenient ...
Matt and Sam discuss Christopher Caldwell's The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties, a broadside against the 1964 ...
Real-estate interests have long wielded an outsized influence over national housing policy—to the detriment of African Americans. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor ▪ Fall 2018 Richard Nixon, HUD ...
Recent scholarship and reporting on racial disparities in the United States have emphasized the role of public policy—especially federal policy—in the creation of what the 1968 Kerner Commission ...
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What connection does the party of Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson have to the party of Barack Obama and Kamala Harris? Timothy Shenk ▪ April 25, 2022 Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, and Barack ...
Cornell University Press, 2020, 216 pp. One day a villager was walking by Akşehir Lake when he saw Nasreddin Hodja pouring a bowl of yogurt into the water. “What are you doing, Hodja?” the villager ...
Wellness courts provide an example of how some tribal governments are using indigenous sovereignty to build a community-based justice system, rooted in support and trust rather than punishment.
Lottie Mae, Willie Hurst, and their seven children lived at 209 Handy Street in Meacham Park, a small, unincorporated African-American neighborhood bounded by the St. Louis suburbs of Kirkwood, ...
Matt and Sam dive into the origins of the Christian right—a complicated tale often flattened by contemporary debates. What was the history of Christian anti-abortion activism before Roe, and how soon ...
Editors ▪ June 4, 2025 As major climate disasters increase in frequency across the country, homeowners and renters are faced with new dilemmas about how to protect themselves and their ...