Class & Inequality
Can Working Families Ever Win?
If we do not take the needs of working families as a keystone, the gaps between poor and rich children will only grow wider.
Stepping Up Labor Standards
Even as globalization makes us complicit in terrible abuses of workers, it opens up new possibilities for public action.
The Future of Affirmative Action
We need to situate the conversation about race, gender, and affirmative action in a wider account of democratic opportunity.
Moving Out of the Ghetto
The state must undertake all action necessary to end the social processes that continue to perpetuate the near-caste structure of American society.
Educating a Democracy
The demands of the 21st century, as well as the demands of democratic life, are best met by preserving plural definitions of a good education.
The New Politics of Consumption
Somebody needs to be for quality of life, not just quantity of stuff.
Is Equality Passé?
The welfare state is in trouble not because selfishness is rampant (it is not), but because many egalitarian programs no longer evoke deeply held notions of fairness.
Development—but at What Cost?
An exchange on Jay Mandle's "The Problem with Thinking Locally" (BR, Summer 1998).
The Problem with Thinking Locally
Markets need to be reshaped to protect the environment, and such reshaping will require political struggle.
Du Bois for the 1990s
William Julius Wilson has provided a searing analysis of inner-city collapse. Can we rise to his challenge?
A Better Democracy, A Better Economy
The quality of state intervention in the economy depends on the quality of democratic institutions.
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