Poverty

Audrey Petty on the history of Chicago public housing, the intimacy of oral histories, and reconstructing demolished communities

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This spring, Newark mayor Cory Booker, then considering a run for U.S. Senate, came to my office along with members of his staff to discuss national economic issues. We spent…

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Will Brazil’s rural poor ever inherit the earth?

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The American dream has never been the rags-to-riches fable of the Horatio Alger stories. But there once was a real American dream, and it went like this: If you work…

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South Sudan tries to learn English

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Gay rights and the war for the Episcopal Church

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“Into the palace parlor they stepped; her hand in his paw the old bruin kept,” 1875 Thirty-seven American soldiers were killed in Iraq, ending the deadliest month for U.S. forces…

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Rebranding foreign aid in Kenya

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Runaway Raft on the Tigris. Palestinian militants conducted a raid in Israel and abducted an Israeli soldier, whom they carried to Gaza via a secret tunnel. Israel retaliated by bombing…

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