This piece originally appeared at the Brookings Institution’s Brown Center Chalkboard blog. Young adulthood is not only the time when most people attend college, but also a time when many marry. In fact, college attendance and marriage are linked and have social and economic consequences for individuals and their families. When (and if) people get […]
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Posted inEconomy, Magazine, March/April/May 2016
Why Is Marriage Thriving Among (and Only Among) the Affluent?
Experts struggle to explain one of the biggest drivers of inequality.
Posted inMagazine, Politics, September/October 2015
Can Gay Wedlock Break Political Gridlock?: A Debate
This article includes a reply by David Blankenhorn, William Galston, Jonathan Rauch, and Barbara Dafoe Whitehead. In the divisive, partisan political debates in D.C., the term “grand bargain” refers to a deal in which each side gives up a dearly held position to get what they want. Democrats accept entitlement cuts, for example, while Republicans […]
Posted inGovernment, Magazine, March/April/May 2015
Washington’s Biggest Problem: Not Agreeing on the Problem
Gridlock rules Washington not just because the parties can’t agree on solutions to our nation’s problems, but because they can’t even agree on what the problems are. Senate Republicans didn’t block Barack Obama’s cap-and-trade bill in 2010 because they favored different policies—say, a carbon tax—for controlling global warming. They blocked it because they didn’t believe […]
Posted inCover, Economy, Magazine, March/April/May 2015
Can Gay Wedlock Break Political Gridlock?
Suddenly, it’s in both parties’ interests to fight the broader decline of marriage. Here’s the case for a “marriage opportunity” agenda.
Posted inMagazine, May/June 2013
Under the Gaydar
How gays won the right to raise children without conservatives even noticing.
Posted inEconomy, January/February 2013, Magazine
The New White Negro
What it means that family breakdown is now biracial.
Posted inJune 1980
Stand By the Non-Event of the Year
It’s 11 o’clock. Do you know where your facilitators are?
