Roundup Top 10!
Only Washington Can Solve the Nation’s Housing Crisisby Lizabeth CohenThe federal government once promised to provide homes for every American. What happened? |
Democrats’ Ominous Shift on School Segregationby Brett GadsdenIt’s not just Joe Biden—the party has backed away from its commitment to fighting segregation in the public schools. |
How antitrust laws can save Silicon Valley — without breaking up the tech giantsby Margaret O'MaraFor AT&T in the 1950s, antitrust enforcement helped increase competition while keeping Ma Bell intact. |
How Fake News Could Lead to Real Warby Daniel Benjamin and Steven SimonWe think of false information as a domestic problem. It’s much more dangerous than that. |
The War Against Endless War Heats Up With Koch-Soros Salvoby Ronald RadoshThe otherwise ideologically opposed billionaires are the latest unlikely pair to find common ground in the idea that American power is the root cause of the world’s problems. |
The Riptide of American Militarismby William AstoreAs Americans wrestled with the possibility of finding themselves in a second looming world war, what advice did the CFR have for then-President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1940? |
The white nostalgia fueling the ‘Little Mermaid’ backlashby Brooke NewmanThe uproar over a black Ariel shows how important representation in children’s entertainment is. |
There’s More to Castro Than Meets the Eyeby Jonathan M. HansenThe revolutionary leader fought for and defended the very democratic ideals his government would later suspend. |
Roosevelt versus the refugees: One FDR policy that Bernie Sanders never mentionsby Rafael MedoffSanders favors a much more liberal U.S. immigration policy. Not Roosevelt. In fact, FDR’s immigration policy was so strict that if Sanders’s father, Eli, had not arrived from Poland before Roosevelt became president, he probably would not have been admitted. |
Why We Need More Black Women In Economicsby Keri Leigh MerrittRecently a group of brilliant, driven, young Black women formed The Sadie Collective, an organization that “seeks to be an answer to the dismal representation of Black women in the quantitatively demanding fields such as public policy, economics, data analytics, and finance.” |
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What to an American Is the Fourth of July?by Ibram X. KendiPower comes before freedom, not the other way around. |