Features

• The Wreckage of Airline Deregulation

  Mark Kahan
• From "Projects" to Communities: How to Redeem Public Housing

  John Atlas, Peter Dreier

  Saving public housing will require more than bootstrap lectures and selling off units to tenants. To transform housing projects into safe communities requires a new balance of rights and responsibilities—and real resources.
• Is the Strike Dead?

  John Hoerr

  The workers who lost the 1892 Homestead Strike would find the situation today all too familiar: employers using strike replacements to destroy labor’s most potent weapon.
• Quiet Success: Where Managed School Integration Works

  J. Fuerst

  Despite a skeptical Supreme Court and a growing separatist movement, many communities across the country are showing that a flexible approach to busing is still the best way to integrate schools.
• The Wreckage of Airline Deregulation

  Richard Leone
• Talking Past Each Other: Black and White Languages of Race

  Bob Blauner

  Blacks and whites do not just disagree about the prevalence of racism; they have different understandings of what racism is. Bridging the gap requires a new look at the language of race and ethnicity in America.
• The Wreckage of Airline Deregulation

  Paul Dempsey
• The Quest for Community (Again)

  E.J. Dionne

  Somewhere between the capitalist’s market and the citizen’s state lies the lost land of community, sought after by humane conservatives, liberals, and social democrats alike. Herewith a modest progressive agenda for repairing some of the damage modernity has done to one of civil society’s foundations—the family.
• Race, Liberalism, and Affirmative Action (II)

  Robert Browne
• Hidden Complications: Why Health Care Competition Needs Regulation

  James Morone

  The market cure for health care’s maladies would be no simple matter. In fact, the great irony of market reform is that it requires skill in regulation. Yet market reformers tend to deny the competence of government, undermining the very confidence their own remedy requires.
• Race, Liberalism, and Affirmative Action (II):

  Jonathan Rieder
• Life After Tight Money

  James Galbraith

  The conservative experiment with tight money has failed. Popular monetary prescriptions—low interest rates and a more accountable Federal Reserve—are steps in the right direction. But they must go hand in hand with structural reforms to get the economy back on track.
• The Deadly Marathon

  Paul Starr
• Race, Liberalism, and Affirmative Action (II)

  Theda Skocpol
• The Economic Stakes

  Robert Reich
• Feminism and Caregiving

  Suzanne Gordon

  Career-minded feminists intent on devaluing caregiving should instead be doing its opposite—increasing its currency among men and women.
• Race, Liberalism, and Affirmative Action (II)

  Jim Sleeper
• The Strong Case for Gun Control

  Carl Bogus

  While abhorring violence, Americans genuinely believe that gun control laws cannot reduce violent crime because criminals will not give up their guns. But some new research shows that gun control, properly designed, can be effective as well as constitutional.