Shlaes’ book is exquisitely well-timed. Now is the time to revisit the Great Society era and consider what worked and what ended up destroying poor neighborhoods and the lives of those in them...

When children become entangled with the law, their lives can be disrupted irrevocably. When those children are underrepresented minorities, the potential for disruption is even greater.

In Chicago, "public safety" and "social justice" do not alway go hand in hand...

Design justice demands a deep understanding of the community and its needs, engagement with community members, and a recognition of their expertise, along with reciprocation of value....

Bachynski examines American football from its origins from the perspective of a public health specialist and an historian...

Martinez-Matsuda exams the Farm Security Administration’s Migratory Labor Camp Program, and its role in the daily lives of a diverse number of farmworker families...

Zavella shows how reproductive justice organizations' collaborative work across racial lines provides a compelling model for other groups to successfully influence change...

In the United States, each election cycle reminds us that younger voters vote at much lower rates than their older counterparts...

To understand our past and provide hope for our future Sandra takes readers around the world to explore water projects....

Birdsong returns us to our inherent connectedness where we find strength, safety, and support in vulnerability and generosity...

For decades, the shortage of STEM talents has been a national concern in the United States...

Messac challenges the inevitability of inadequate social services in twentieth-century Africa, focusing on the political history of Malawi...

At trial, some jurors turned to a Ouija board for guidance...

Nuamah makes the case for “feminist schools” that orient girls toward a lifetime of achievement...

Since the last-but-one financial crisis abated and governments responded to better times by clawing back their stimulus packages, a once-obscure economic philosophy has been gaining a growing following on the left...

Plotch discusses the problems of uneven funding, high costs, and political machinations that hobble the subway system-- and how, on Second Avenue, they were finally overcome...

If gun violence kills so many Americans, why don’t we see more effective solutions?

In our conversation we defined the disciplines of Public Choice and Public Administration and we named the key actors of a very long intellectual debate...

Colleges fiercely defend America’s higher education system, arguing that it rewards bright kids who have worked hard. But it doesn’t actually work this way...

Glass evaluates the widely held assumption that divisions between urban areas are reflections of varying amounts of crime, deprivation, and other social, cultural, and economic problems....

Tcherneva challenges us to imagine a world where the phantom of unemployment is banished and anyone who seeks decent, living-wage work can find it - guaranteed....

Goldfield charts the rise of labor activism in each and then examines how and why labor organizers struggled so mightily in the region...

Chase narrates the struggle to change prison from within...

Kimball argues that, despite stigma and continued legal prohibitions, practices and attitudes surrounding abortion have changed in urban Bolivia since the 1950s..

Dean analyzes the development and effectiveness of anti-trafficking policies and institutions in Latvia, Russia, and Ukraine...