Langley’s Bartlebys I’m sure you’re sick of hearing about “the talking points,” but it’s fascinating to discover that the real culprit was not Susan Rice or a sinister White House plot, but, according to Siobhan Gorman and Adam Entous of the Wall Street Journal, a daylong debate at the CIA involving “more than two dozen […]
January/February 2013
Posted inJanuary/February 2013, Magazine
Wholesome Millennials—Black, Brown, and White
Prevailing stereotypes about America’s youth, and particularly about young African Americans, are often wildly off base, either because they were never true, or because they have failed to keep up with the reality of generational change. Below is a selection of social indicators showing ways in which today’s younger generation exhibits substantially more positive behaviors […]
Posted inHealth Care, January/February 2013, Magazine
Color-Blind Medicine?
In 2002, the Institute of Medicine published an oft-cited and controversial report entitled Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care. The report concluded that members of minority groups, even when fully insured, tend to receive substandard care from their doctors. It cited disparities in how often whites and minorities received even routine […]
Posted inJanuary/February 2013, Magazine
To Live Longer, Move to a New Zip Code
Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move” campaign emphasizes the importance of physical activity for combating obesity, a point she has driven home by dancing alongside school kids to Beyoncé’s workout video. But another kind of movement may also be important to your chances of living to a ripe old age: moving to a new zip code. Between […]
Posted inEconomy, January/February 2013, Magazine
The American Dream, Redeemed
How to make homeownership a safe bet for minority borrowers.
Posted inJanuary/February 2013, Magazine, Politics
Red, White, and Black
Three generations of African American politicians.
Posted inBooks, Government, Health Care, January/February 2013, Magazine
Did Hurricane Sandy Save Obamacare?
How disaster relief justifies the welfare state.
Posted inBooks, Education, January/February 2013, K-12, Magazine
Class No Longer Dismissed
Why some conservatives are warming to socioeconomic school integration.
Posted inBooks, Government, January/February 2013, Magazine
COIN Operated
In Iraq and Afghanistan, General David Petraeus applied all the lessons learned in Vietnam—except for the one that mattered most.
Posted inBooks, January/February 2013, Magazine, Politics
An Arranged Marriage
Why Eisenhower distrusted, but needed, Nixon.
