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Reentry

Reversing mass imprisonment.

  • Bruce Western

What We Owe to Incarcerated Fathers

More than 1.5 million children currently have a parent in prison; for 94 percent of these children, that parent is the father.

  • Mary Fainsod Katzenstein
  • Mary Lyndon Shanley

The Gunslinger

John Bolton will turn U.S. foreign policy back to the unilateralism of Bush’s first term, when the war on terror meant never having to say you’re sorry.

  • Stephen John Stedman

Outside the Big Box

Who speaks for small business?

  • Nicole D. Kazee
  • Michael Lipsky
  • Cathie Jo Martin

Obama’s Bolt from the Blue

. By restricting religious hiring rights, Obama’s faith-based initiative attacks the very thing it claims to be supporting. 

  • Lew Daly

State of the Nation: Electricity and Elections

How Americans feel about energy companies.

  • Stephen Ansolabehere

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American Dreamers

Pete Seeger, William F. Buckley, Jr., and public history.

  • William Hogeland

The Bitter End

Jonah Goldberg’s liberal fascism.

  • Kevin Mattson

On Borrowed Time

Urban decline moves to the suburbs

  • Michael Gecan

Ending Urban Poverty: Introduction

What if we stop thinking in terms of place and start thinking about families or individuals?

  • Dalton Conley

Ending Urban Poverty: The Inherited Ghetto

Understanding the persistence of racial inequality

  • Patrick Sharkey

Ending Urban Poverty: Neighborhood Matters

Do housing vouchers work?

  • Stefanie DeLuca

Inventing Alexander Hamilton

On the troubling embrace of the founder of American finance.

  • William Hogeland

Words Behind Bars

Do prisoners have a right to read what they want?

  • Colin Dayan

Why Are So Many Americans in Prison?

Race and the transformation of criminal justice

  • Glenn C. Loury

In the Sweep of History

Where realists and progressives can meet.

  • Anatol Lieven

The View from Tehran

Changing Iran from within.

  • Akbar Ganji

A Third Way

Normalizing relations will help Iran and the United States.

  • Michael McFaul
  • Abbas Milani

The Reckoning

On the proper place for religion in politics.

  • Catherine Tumber

In Search of the Common Good

The Catholic roots of American Liberalism

  • Lew Daly

The Geography of Poverty

Democrats missed the opportunity to rethink the social compact.

  • Dalton Conley

The Crucible

Sex Education in the United States.

  • Maureen N. McLane

The Lesser Evil

Using American force wisely.

  • Anatol Lieven

Rules of Engagement

Why military honor matters.

  • Elaine Scarry
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