(The first in a periodic series on important books over the past half century addressing employment/unemployment, and their lessons for employment policy today) Ken Auletta is widely known today for ...

Teaching, research, and service in a vastly unequal academy. This article is part of a preview of the winter 2026 issue of Academe. The issue will be released in full in February.

Attempts to minimize the pandemic began almost at the beginning. In March 2020, Chris Cuomo—then the anchor of a CNN news program—put a challenge to Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National ...

The saying 'data is the new oil' has already become a banality. But as corporations capitalize on the value contained in our personal information, the benefits of digital innovation remain unevenly ...

Taxi Driver was one of a number of movies in the 1970s that presented a menacing underclass, unemployed and threatening social stability. (Fifty years ago, America launched a great experiment, ...

Jason Perlow wrote a great piece this afternoon asking if the digital revolution, particularly as it relates to books and libraries, was creating a "Digital Underclass". When the printed media on ...

Watching the courage of ordinary low-income people as they deal with the aftermath of Katrina and Rita, it is hard to decide which politicians are more contemptible–Democrats who are rediscovering ...

As the 1980s came to an end, the Sunday Times asked me to come to England and look at the country’s social problems through the eyes of an American who had been writing about the American underclass.

Politicians are wrong to talk about a permanent "underclass" in society, according to a report by a left-wing think tank. Much poverty is thankfully temporary but there are some people who are ...

If you are an American citizen, you are of little value to today’s Democratic Party. If you identify as a Democrat, a patriotic citizen, support the Declaration of Independence and believe in the U.S.