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By autumn of 1988, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev had been in power for three riveting years as general secretary of the Communist Party. He…
Robert Frank’s recent book, Success and Luck, is an engaging, partly autobiographical account of why and how most Americans underestimate…
According to the Census Bureau, the percentage of Americans living in poverty is higher today than it was in the late 1960s. Last year I…
From the late 1960s to the mid-1990s, a number of developments turned out to have profound effects on destitute families in the United…
What limits should be placed on the public power to take private property? Ten years ago, when the Supreme Court heard the case of Kelo v.…
Legacies of the War on Poverty is a set of nine studies, edited by Martha Bailey and Sheldon Danziger, that assess the successes and…
Former secretary of state Madeleine Albright famously described the United States as the “indispensable nation,” entitled to lead because…
A Review of “Grotton Revisited…Planning in Crisis?”