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Twenty years ago this week, a jury acquitted the Los Angeles policemen who beat motorist Rodney King, and the city exploded in a six-day…
Since the middle of the last century, the American labor movement has been in steady decline. In the early 1950s, around one-third of the…
In a widely cited study, Collier, Hoeffler & Söderbom show that economic growth reduces the risk of post-conflict peace collapse –…
Book abstract: Over the past two decades there has been great interest in cosmopolitanism across the human and social sciences. Where,…
With all the focus on the “war on women,” the issue of war and women isn’t getting its share of attention. On Monday, Defense Secretary…
The article presents a speech by development economist Lant Pritchett
delivered in the Belmont First Ward in Belmont, Massachusetts on…
Even as two-thirds of Americans now say that there are strong conflicts between rich and poor, another great American division is slowly…