Fall 2025

The big question used to be, when did you leave the Communist Party? And the answer was always, too late, because the questioner had either left before you or had never joined. In this campaign season, the question is, why …

In the fall of 1964, Ronald Reagan went on national television to tell the American people about a growing tyranny in their midst, “subtler, but no less dangerous” than Soviet communism. He also told them to cast their presidential vote …

This is a part of a debate on The Wire. To read, Atlas and Dreier’s initial article, click here. To read Anmol Chaddha, Sudhir Venkatesh, and William Julius Wilson, click here.   We, too, were big fans of The Wire …

Health-promotion experts and historians generally concur that the federal government’s response to HIV/AIDS during the 1980s and early 1990s was inadequate and constrained by moralism. President Ronald Reagan famously refused to publicly address the issue of AIDS until five years …

This is a part of a debate on The Wire. To read John Atlas and Peter Dreier’s article, click here. To read, Atlas and Dreier’s response, click here.   Although we agree that The Wire does not take on every …

Until recently, my husband and I had been seeing one of those “Oh-I’m-so-glad-he’s-my-doctor” physicians for two decades. Then one day the mail brought the announcement that the office was closing its doors and that the four doctors who had been …

Determining when one period gave way to another or, in fact, naming a period is always a tricky matter. This is especially so when it comes to contemporary events. Processes are still going on and it is not yet evident …

Fanon: A Novel by John Edgar Wideman Houghton Mifflin, 2008, 240 pp., $24.00 The overall critical response to John Edgar Wideman’s Fanon was not positive. Carlin Romano wrote in the Philadelphia Inquirer, “At a time when Barack Obama offers America …

Bill Clinton after signing the Financial Services Modernization Act in 1999. Photo: Justin Lane/The New York Times/Redux The conventional wisdom has held that economic policy was a great success under Bill Clinton in the 1990s and a failure ever since. …

This is a part of a debate on The Wire. To read Anmol Chaddha, Sudhir Venkatesh, and William Julius Wilson, click here. To read, Atlas and Dreier’s response, click here.   The Wire, the television drama about Baltimore that ended its …

This past spring, French president Nicolas Sarkozy published a “point of view” article in the French newspaper Le Monde entitled “For Strong Unions.” After writing of his desire to enhance the “social dialogue,” he expressed his support for measures that …

B.J. Widick recently passed away at the age of 97. His death brings to a close the rich and lengthy life of a notable figure in the trade union and socialist movements. Born in a Serbian village in 1910, Widick …

The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker by Steven Greenhouse Knopf, 2008, 345 pp., $25.95 Love the Work, Hate the Job: Why America’s Best Workers Are Unhappier Than Ever by David Kusnet Wiley & Sons, 2008, 270 pp., …

Preliminary Theme You could feel the frost as soon as I posed the question. The week before I went to see Philip Glass’s opera Satyagraha, which is subtitled M.K. Gandhi in South Africa, I attended a screening of a documentary …

Supporters of both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, for all their differences, have in the course of this emotional primary season come to view the Democratic Party’s nominating process as seriously flawed. To be sure, Obama’s enthusiasts would seem to …