It’s been exactly 50 years since Americans, or at least the non-poor among them, “discovered” poverty, thanks to Michael Harrington’s engaging book The Other America. If this discovery now seems a little overstated, like Columbus’s…
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The BRICS summit, to be held in New Delhi at the end of March, provides the opportunity to begin a discussion on the global governance deficit. Looking ahead to 2050, the major challenges for growth…
For me, signing up for the most stigmatized benefit felt like a defeat and a victory “Mister Cook! Chris Cook? Mr. Cook! Window three!” I walk through the pasty government-issue fluorescent light and bureaucratic cinderblock…
In 1962, Michael Harrington’s “The Other America” exposed the nation’s dark side, saying: “In morality and in justice, every citizen should be committed to abolishing the other America, for it is intolerable that the richest…