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The Public Interest archives from September 2004
A new GOP?(The Political Parties in Flux (I))(Republican party)
September 22, 2004... THE midterm elections of 2002 brought the Republican party to the high point of its political strength in the modern era. For the first time since 1954, Republicans held the presidency as well as a majority in both the House and the Senate....
Democrats adrift?(The Political Parties in Flux (II))
September 22, 2004... SEVERAL slow-moving but massive changes in American society over the past generation have reconfigured the fault-lines of American politics. Two of these changes--the impact of family structure and religion--are well known. In the 2000...
On leaving no child behind.(education law)
September 22, 2004... PASSED by Congress in 2001 and signed into law by President George W. Bush one short year after his inauguration, the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) is the most ambitious federal education statute in decades. Save possibly for Medicare reform,...
Compassion, religion, and politics.
September 22, 2004... AS FILM director Mel Brooks once said, "Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die." Of course, he was talking about the darker side of the comedian's art. But to listen to the American news media and...
Our fractious foreign policy debate.
September 22, 2004... THREE decades after the Vietnam War, American politicians are still making foreign policy decisions in its shadow. In fact, on one level, debates such as those over the recent war in Iraq can be viewed as hinging on how one interprets the...
The economy in perspective.(impact of the new economy)
September 22, 2004... DURING the 1997-98 season, the Chicago Bulls won the National Basketball Association championship after a regular-season record of 62 wins and 20 losses under coach Phil Jackson. In the next season Tim Floyd replaced Jackson, and the Bulls...
Health, inequality, and the scholars.
September 22, 2004... FEW would take exception to the idea that an improvement in the material well-being of the poor would enhance not only their living standard but their health levels as well. A number of influential recent studies, however, purport to show that...
Being well.(Review)(Beyond Therapy: Biotechnology and the Pursuit of Happiness)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... JOHN Sperling, a man who has been called the Howard Hughes of biotechnology, has $3 billion and a dream: to retard aging and extend human longevity. According to a recent article in Wired magazine, he intends to found an endowment generating at...
The last puritans.(Review)(Brook Farm: The Dark Side of Utopia)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... BROOK Farm was the most visible, and in some ways most successful, of the many American secular utopian experiments of the 1840s. This decade, as Sterling Delano explains in Brook Farm: The Dark Side of Utopia, ([dagger]) was one of our...
Work and poverty.(Review)(The Working Poor: Invisible in America )(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... MORE than a decade ago, the political scientist Lawrence Mead predicted that the passage of workfare legislation would move American politics to the left, because mainstream Americans would be more receptive to easing the lot of "a poor...