It’s Not All ‘Gentrification’
The connection between economic diversity and urban renewal
Urban areas have a tendency to build upon themselves. Perhaps as long as cities have existed, they have been in the process of being ‘renewed.’ In modern urban America, the issue of renewal is intricately intertwined with the...
Ending the Shootout
The importance of community-based responses to gang violence
Gang violence devastates American urban life. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, in 2000 there were over 24,000 gangs and over 700,000 gang members nationwide. The Child Trends Databank reports that almost three-quarte...
The Politics of Line Drawing
The future of gerrymandering after the 2010 census
When Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) withdrew his nomination for commerce secretary in February, Republicans blamed the debacle on the White House’s alleged attempt to usurp control of the 2010 census, which rests with the Commerce Department....
Much Ado About Polling
Concerns over the role of the poll are misguided
The high number of public opinion polls was impossible to miss during the 2008 election, and, though the horserace is on break, professional pollsters are keeping busy. Polling is no longer a part-time business, and a wide variety of opinion polls, cov...
Watching "Watchmen"
The dangers of translating comics to the big screen
Watchmen, a legend among comic books, has long been thought unfilmable, not only by its author, Alan Moore, but also by the comic’s rabid fans, who point to its intricate comics-within-comics, flashbacks, and rapid shifts in focus, all...
Things to Come
George Friedman’s geopolitical prophecy
The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century
is a book that admits it will not get everything right. The author George Friedman, founder of the private intelligence firm STRATFOR, takes up the prophet’s mantle and tells us what the 21st ce...
Ping-Pong with Pyongyang
Can six-party stakeholders return the next volley?
On Feb. 13, 2007, six-party talks with North Korea reached a breakthrough. In exchange for economic and energy aid, the regime would begin dismantling its nuclear reactor at Yongbyon in a key step towards denuclearization. But a major set...
Closer, but No Cigar
Anticipating a new era of engagement with Cuba
BY AMY BEESON
When President Obama signed the 2009 Omnibus Appropriations Bill into law on March 11, he took a small step towards what many hope will be a new era in U.S.-Cuban relations. Embedded in the bill were three clauses that loos...
From Class to Work
Former Secretary of Labor on the future of the work force
Elaine Chao is the former United States Secretary of Labor. She served in President George W. Bush’s cabinet for both of his terms in office. The first Chinese-American person appointed to a president’s cabinet, Chao worked to ...
Beyond the Achievement Gap
Richard Rothstein on the challenges facing American education
Richard Rothstein is a research associate of the Economic Policy Institute and a former national education columnist of The New York Times.
Harvard Political Review:
What is right with American education today?
Richar...
Sotomayor on Criminal Justice: Causes for Concern?
It now appears that the Obama administration, which once seemed so eager to explicitly press the case for liberal constitutional j...
A Letter to the Editor of the NY Times
To the Editor:
Please explain to me the logic of an article that announces that Sonia Sotomayor has an "issue of temperament," presen...
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