Ergebnis für "Dream Again" in Politik & Regierungen

From the author of Bowling Alone and Our Kids, a “sweeping yet remarkably accessible” (The Wall Street Journal) analysis that “offers superb, often counterintuitive insights” (The New York Times) to demonstrate how we have gone from an individualistic “I” society to a more...

On the eve of America's 250th anniversary comes a groundbreaking history of patriotism and the question of how to love a country. American patriotism is a love that kills. From the nation’s earliest days, it has been used to justify innumerable horrors: slavery, the displacement of Native...

Nearly 15 million girls, including many in the U.S., are forced into marriage each year. Each of these girls has a price tag—and a story. Sonita Alizada was almost sold twice. Her price tag was $9,000. The money her family received for selling her would pay for her brother’s wife. The first...

"An impassioned call for solidarity and unity in a time of political and social uncertainty."

Prior to World War II, Finley explains, southern senators recognized the fall of segregation as inevitable, and consciously changed their tactics to delay, rather than prevent defeat, enabling them to frustrate civil rights advances for decades. As public support for civil rights grew, southern senators transformed their arguments to limit the use of overt racism and appeal to northerners. They granted minor concessions on bills only tangentially related to civil rights.