From Seneca Falls to Stonewall and Back Again
The men did right. Last Thursday, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, a man, joined with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey, a man, to rescind the 1994 order barring women from combat.
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Action on Guns and Immigration Needed
It is hard to remember, on President Obama’s second inauguration, that less than a decade ago he was a relatively unknown Senate candidate.
A Storm of a Fight
It might seem that a disaster was averted by the last-minute fiscal-cliff deal. But the wrath of House Republicans has simply moved to a different disaster: last October’s Hurricane Sandy.
For the Sake of Democracy, Elect Women
First: Thursday’s congressional swearing-in will reflect the stunning success of the Democrats’ ground game at turning out minorities — a strategy that stretched across Native American reservations, c
On Average, Physicians Spend Nearly 11 Percent Of Their 40-Year Careers With An Open, Unresolved Malpractice Claim
The US malpractice system is widely regarded as inefficient, in part because of the time required to resolve malpractice cases.
Post-Durban Climate Policy Architecture Based on Linkage of Cap-and-Trade Systems
The outcome of the December 2011 United Nations climate negotiations in Durban, South Africa, provides an important new opportunity to move toward an international climate policy architecture that is
Courting Deliberation: The Role of Deliberative Democracy in the American Judicial System
Many legal theorists and political philosophers—among them John Rawls, Ronald Dworkin, Amy Gutmann, Dennis Thompson, and Joshua Cohen—believe that decision making through deliberation is a normative i
Women and the Informal Economy: Economic Actors and Global Leaders
Book abstract: Women in the Global Economy: Leading Social Change explores the landscape of women’s participation in the economy and the key role that women play in fueling economic growth by creating
Political Violence
Although international relations as a field focuses largely on war and peace between nation-states, the vast majority of conflicts have been within countries rather than between them.
Informal Employment Revisited: Theories, Data, and Policies
Martha Alter Chen . 2013. “” in special issue of the Indian Journal of Industrial Relations (IJIR) on “Unorganized Workers” guest-edited by Renana Jhabvala. Vol. 48, No. 3, January 2013.
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