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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 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...
Ideas Rain In
In 1675 Isaac Newton suffered a mental breakdownsome modern psychiatrists diagnose him as a manic-depressiveand he was still...
The End of Blackness?
"Blackness has been shrugged off by the force of events," says Debra Dickerson, J.D. '95. "Things are not perfect racially, but...
Magnetically Lifted Spirits
Near the end of the first act in Mozart's Così Fan Tutte, after the two handsome Albanians have collapsed from apparent arsenic...
Philippe Granjean on mercury poisoning in the Faroe Islands
The pregnant women did not worry about their food. They simply ate it: chunks of fresh whale meat and pounds of fish. They ate it because they...
The Way of Trout
Strange to say, swimming through rough water may actually be easier than swimming across a calm pond. At least that's true for many kinds of...
Twigs Bent, Trees Go Straight
In a discussion of criminal-justice issues, former U. S. Attorney General Janet Reno once stated that the life trajectory for most criminals was...
The Politics of Disaster
When a natural disaster strikes in the United States, only the president has the power to declare the site a federal disaster area, making it...
Pliable Paradigms
If ever someone understood the challenges of changing people's minds, it was Charles Darwin. After doing his research in the Galápagos...
Kids Turn New Pages
Parents in the 1960s generally expected their children to be passive observers who did as they were told. Today's parents are more likely to...