The award-winning human rights activist and advisor to policy makers and presidential candidates delivers a 21st-century economic plan to rescue working-class Americans. Van Jones illustrates how we can invent and invest our way out of the pollution-based grey economy and into the healthy new green economy. Built by a broad coalition deeply rooted in the lives and struggles of ordinary people, this path has the practical benefit of both cutting energy...

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, advocates of legal abortion mostly used the term rights when describing their agenda. But, after Roe v. Wade, their determination to develop a respectable, non-confrontational movement encouraged many of them to use the word choice-an easier concept for people weary of various rights movements. At first, the distinction in language didn't seem to make much difference-the law seemed to guarantee both. But, in the...

In October 2022, the economist Emily Oster wrote a plea for a "pandemic amnesty." After detailing various ill-conceived public health policies throughout the pandemic, Oster concluded that "The standard saying is that those who forget history are doomed to repeat it. But dwelling on the mistakes of history can lead to a repetitive doom loop as well." She reasoned that many admittedly poor, public health decisions were made in an information vacuum...

The Agenda for Social Justice: Solutions for 2016 provides accessible insights into some of the most pressing social problems in the United States and proposes public policy responses to those problems. Written by a highly respected team of authors brought together by the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP), it offers recommendations for action by elected officials, policy makers, and the public around key issues for social justice, including...

The specialisation, knowledge and innovation brought about by universities often play a key role for the economic success of cities and regions. Yet higher education is also increasingly regarded, in some European countries and regions, as an economic sector in itself, whereby the measure of success lies in the ability to attract international students and set up international partnerships. Universities need therefore to find successful strategies...

Pleinement ancrées à gauche, les idées qu'Elio Di Rupo émet témoignent d'une ferme détermination à ne pas accepter la société telle qu'elle est. Il est convaincu qu'il est possible de réveiller la démocratie et d'offrir des perspectives d'émancipation et d'autonomie aux citoyens, en particulier aux jeunes. Il promeut l'écosocialisme et l'individualisation des droits sociaux. Il entend lier les salaires à l'utilité sociale d'un emploi,...

World, our country, its citizens and people in power; divided we stand, unable to solve the social problems that plague us. Politically and socially, we are stuck on a Rodent wheel (guinea pig), going round and round with no end in sight. We and politicians list the problems, blame the other party, compound the problems by kicking it to the next election cycle and then to the future generations. Treating a patient for an illness a doctor, often hurts...

British society is increasingly divided into the haves and the have-nots. Housing epitomizes this division with spiralling rents, exorbitant prices, lack of council provision, poorly maintained stock, and polluted cities with ever decreasing green space. Daniel Renwick and Robbie Shilliam provide a recent history of squalor culminating in the Grenfell Tower fire. In doing so they reveal a profound political failure to provide fair and just solutions...

UK workers are stuck in a low-pay, low-productivity rut, with far too many people working in poor quality, insecure jobs, with little training or chance of getting on. Katy Jones and Ashwin Kumar question the mantra that "work is the best way out of poverty" and examine the in-work poverty that now defines employment for many. The state's engagement with people out of work is shown to ignore the needs of lone parents and disabled people, and has...

Frank "Pache" Pachecano, a former ICE detective in Texas, has been tapped by female FBI special agent Aitana Garcia, to help solve the murder of a ten year old girl in Miami. The government of the United States had recently enacted the Disabled Children's Immigration Act, which said any disabled child under the age of twelve, who was found on North American soil illegally, could enter a DCI program and receive a full American citizenship at the age...