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In dollar terms, the largest civil rights effort run by the Federal Government is the set-aside programs for minority-owned businesses. In 1986 more than $4 billion in federal contracts was allotted to such firms, and enthusiastic support for the programs cuts across the ideological spectrum, from Ronald Reagan...
Even more than the international monetary and financial system established at Bretton Woods or the strategic policy of containment enshrined in the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan remains the preeminent symbol of American liberal internationalism in the postwar era. It exemplified how capitalism's ends could be served by humanitarian...
Some of the best aspects of the Plan--for instance its emphasis on foreign government priority-setting free of American interference--were not applied to Third World development programs. Equating wartime destruction in Europe with the ravages of colonialism, Western planners confused a temporary dislocation with a systemic problem. While...
WHAT DO a .41 caliber revolver, a Hispanic social worker who knows her theories of capitalism and class struggle very well, and 300 kilos of cocaine have in common?
Even as many other Communist countries are experimenting with economic reforms of one kind or another, Cuba has chosen to move in precisely the opposite direction. Within the past year Fidel Castro has pulled the plug on the country's once-thriving system of free-market farmers' stands and a...