Why Race Relations Got Worse
We have two underclasses that are increasingly polarized.
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Why the White Working Class Is Falling Behind
Despite the environmental pressures from my community, I received a different message at home. And that just might have saved me.
Did Ted Cruz Miscalculate His Support among Evangelicals?
Cruz may depend on a group of religious voters who increasingly spurn church services and, consequently, traditional social conservatives like him.
Consigned to ‘Assistance’
It’s sometimes easy to forget that the Republican party’s proudest moment was the emancipation of the American slave. Indeed, for decades after Lincoln gave his life for the Union, black ...
Consigned to ‘Assistance’
It’s sometimes easy to forget that the Republican party’s proudest moment was the emancipation of the American slave. Indeed, for decades after Lincoln gave his life for the Union, black ...
The Missing Case Against Reparations
I must admit that when I picked up Ta-Nehisi Coates’s piece on reparations, I expected to read a defense of reparations. Reparations, for the uninitiated, are payments made to compensate ...
Yes, the Skills Gap Is Real
Some American workers lack the skills necessary to compete in the modern economy, some firms can’t find workers with the skills they need, and that’s hurting the labor market, right? ...
The College Board Is Going after the Wrong Villain
A thought experiment: Johnny is a poor kid in a Rust Belt neighborhood outside of Pittsburgh. Suzy is a student at a tony private high school in the suburbs of ...
The College Trap
A few years ago, a friend learned that a mutual acquaintance had accepted a job with an elite D.C. law firm, at a starting salary of $160,000. She turned pre-law ...