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Hip-Hop President

Alec Barrett - May 24, 2009

How Obama will influence the genre On his posthumously released hit Changes, 2Pac rapped, “Although it seems heaven sent, we ain’t ready to see a...

Too Soon to Tell

Steven Johnston - May 24, 2009

Predicting political realignment Most discussions of youth politics tout blog posts and text messages rather than grand realignments. Millennial Makeover: MySpace, YouTube & the...

To Build an Empire

Elizabeth Bloom - May 24, 2009

Tolerance and hyperpowers History often remembers empires as power-hungry, violent aggressors that conquer at the expense of victim nations. In Day of Empire, Amy...

Power Play

Allaura Osborne - May 24, 2009

How inequality can spiral out of control “Let me tell you about the very rich,” F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote. “They are very different...

Big Aspirations, Smaller Results

Nicholas Tatsis - May 24, 2009

How much have Texan oilmen shaped America? Reporter Brian Burrough follows his last corporate epic, Barbarians at the Gate, with a new book, The...

Things to Come

Peter Bacon - May 24, 2009

George Friedman’s geopolitical prophecy The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century is a book that admits it will not get everything right....

Watching “Watchmen”

Jonathan Yip - May 23, 2009

The dangers of translating comics to the big screenWatchmen, a legend among comic books, has long been thought unfilmable, not only by its author,...

Racial Politics Remade

Anita Joseph - April 2, 2009

Can black politicians transcend race?Barack Obama was an unlikely standard-bearer for black politicians. He did not work his way up through the ranks of...

Doing Well in Doing Good

Pooja Venkatraman - April 2, 2009

Can capitalism work for charity? Economists are no strangers to knee-jerk argumentation. Their soundest arguments are often those that strike most sharply at the beliefs...

Comeback to the Future

Steven Johnston - April 2, 2009

A proposal for rejuvenating the Republican Party American conservatism is in disarray. Democrats won decisively in the 2006 midterm and 2008 presidential elections. Once reliably...