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.…
Although an accurate estimate of how the poverty rate has changed since 1964 would show that we are much closer to achieving President…
Legacies of the War on Poverty is a set of nine studies, edited by Martha Bailey and Sheldon Danziger, that assess the successes and…
Alice Goffman’s book, On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City, is one of those rare publications by a sociologist that creates an…
In his new book, The Big Disconnect: Why the Internet Hasn’t Transformed Politics (Yet), Personal Democracy Forum founder Micah Sifry asks…