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Americans born between V-J day and J.F.K. have always considered themselves the 20th century's chosen people. Their wonder years were blithe and prosperous; they invented sex, discovered candor and stopped an immoral war; they were rewarded with Haagen-Dazs and Saturday Night Live. Three decades ago, the Beatles...
The Afterschool Alliance had a far better technique: tons of supercute poor kids. A day before we hit the offices of almost 200 congressional members, we sat through an afternoon of PowerPoint-filled workshops at the Grand Hyatt Washington hotel to learn lots of stats. These all seemed boring, so...
"No one is going to say that this is a perfect plan," acknowledges Inez Dickens, one of three city-council members representing Harlem. Dickens haggled with city officials to add considerable benefits to the proposal: affordable home-ownership opportunities, a $750,000 forgivable-loan program for businesses that may be...
Though they may not always like to admit it, Americans have known for centuries that sometimes the best way to get a good picture of the U.S. is to see it through foreign eyes. Alexis de Tocqueville did a dead-on reading of the place. So did Charles Dickens. And...
“Angels in America” author Tony Kushner opened the Tanner Lectures on Human Values last night with a rapid-fire monologue by a character named Tony Kushner—a neurotic writer completely unprepared to give a speech “at—you should...