Winter 2026

Thomas Frank’s What’s the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America

Yes, the Bush administration does pose a serious danger to basic liberties and constitutional democracy. Do the NRA and the ACLU agree on what that threat is? I doubt it. Each organization represents a pole in the partisan battle that …

My article aims to identify a small set of foreign policy initiatives that could be taken in the first few months of a new administration so as to begin to repair the damage to U.S. global standing and influence wrought …

The family house has left the family. Built in 1898, the two-story frame house was sold last fall for far more than I would have guessed and probably more than it was worth. The 1200 block on Carmen Avenue in …

Whitewashing Race: The Myth of a Color-Blind Society by Michael K. Brown, Martin Carnoy, Elliot Currie, Troy Duster, David B. Oppenheimer, Marjorie M. Shultz, and David Wellman

Vladimir Putin’s Russia is awash in Soviet kitsch. In St. Petersburg’s popular “Idiot” café a bust of Lenin sports a racy polka-dot tie. Trendy eateries with catchy names such as “Propaganda,” “CCCP,” “Soviet Kitsch,” and (no kidding) “Lenin’s Mating Call” …

With health care the number-two priority of voters-behind jobs but still before terrorism-hopes are riveted on the 2004 election for reform that would extend coverage to forty-five million uninsured and safeguard the care of those lucky enough already to have …

The International Criminal Court in Northern Uganda

The role of Jews as a people is becoming an issue again in ways that were thought to be consigned to history. Throughout the second half of the twentieth century two major issues appeared to have been settled. The revulsion …

Making Molehills out of the Mountains

You go shopping and find yourself in a long line, waiting for help from a competent but overwhelmed cashier. On your right you see four self-service stations with no lines. A cashier stands ready to train you on how to …

On March 16 the AFL-CIO filed a remarkable petition with the U.S. government asking that the U.S. trade representative take action to promote the human rights of China’s factory workers. The petition charged that China’s brutal repression of internationally recognized …

JANUARY 2001 Jan. 20-On the day of George W. Bush’s inauguration, Chief of Staff Andrew Card issues a sixty-day moratorium halting all new health, safety, and environmental regulations issued in the final days of the Clinton administration. Jan. 23-On the …

How should Democrats think about health care reform now? And what should Democrats do about it? The simplicity with which one can pose such questions is misleading. Health care reform is a topic marked by much ideological cant, ferocious interest …