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Why America’s Strategy For Reducing Racial Inequality Failed
Harvard professor Christina Cross debunks the myth of the two-parent Black family.
by Saima Sidik
The Medicalization of Torture
The revelations of torture and prisoner abuse at the Abu Ghraib facility in Iraq may not be over; the Army's Fay Report and the independent...
A New Theory on Longevity
Caloric restriction, touted as a possible way to increase human life span, has gotten a lot of press lately. Research on rats and mice has shown...
Heaven, Hell, and Profits
The Protestant Ethicyou probably know the gist of it. Sociologist Max Weber's famous treatise on "the spirit of capitalism"...
Megastore Politics
Wal-Mart, with its 3,500 stores across the country (as well as plans to add nearly 10 percent more in 2004), is the most visible part of the...
Extreme Housing
There are more than 20 million refugees in the world, and for many of them, home consists of UN-donated plastic sheeting held up by sticks...
Blackboard Brain Drain
When children return to classrooms this fall, they're less likely than ever to find a very smart teacher standing at the front of the class...
Mugged on Park Avenue
The stories of Manhattan's outrageous apartment prices are legendary: residents routinely pay through the nose for a studio roughly the size of...
Upside for Downloads
Last year, pop star Madonna went on the attack in the war over file sharing, the popular but illegal practice of downloading copyrighted music...
The Thwarts of Last Resort
Like fire extinguishers and airline safety cards, lifeboats remind us of a reality we prefer to ignore; on a tropical cruise, we tune out the...