There are many things progressives need to do in the long term to win the economic argument against conservatives. But what about the short…
In his book The Idea of Justice, Amartya Sen argues that we do not need to know what perfect justice is to know that a particular state of…
This essay is an exploration of the political rise of politician Edward W. Brooke and his impact on the Republican Party and the black…
This article argues that the United States of America is quite different from other OECD countries in its religiosity (America is much more…
Member-based civic associations, or citizen groups, have two crucial roles in American democracy. They advocate for members' interests in…
Iris Marion Young died in August 2006, at the age of only 57. Responsibility for Justice further develops some themes that have been…
Is culture an important determinant of preferences for redistribution? To separate culture from the economic and institutional environment…
Sequencing the human genome provided a powerful new way to represent human identity, and the moral implications of that re-representation…
Republicans this year have the best chance of defeating a sitting Democratic president since Ronald Reagan toppled Jimmy Carter more than…
If politics is the art of the possible, then compromise is the soul of democracy. In the deal he proposed to extend the Bush-era tax cuts (…