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A Quiet Battle for Rights in Iran
by Christia, Fotini
Publisher: Washington Post
Publication Type: Op-ed
TEHRAN—It was during a recent visit to a middle-class beauty salon here, amid the women getting their upper lips threaded and their legs waxed, that I saw what the One Million Signature Campaign...
Published Date: August 2007 More
Diversity and Community
by Ashbrook, Tom; Putnam, Robert D.
Publisher: WBUR
Publication Type: Interview
By host Tom Ashbrook WBUR's On Point, August 9, 2007 Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam is a self-described full-on liberal who worries a lot about community in America.
Published Date: August 2007 More
Tinkering With Humans
by Saletan, William
Publisher: New York Times
Publication Type: Book Review
Book review of The Case Against Perfection by Michael J. Sandel Three years ago in The Atlantic, the Harvard philosopher Michael Sandel wrote a critique of genetic engineering titled “The...
Published Date: July 2007 More
The Lobster Summit
by Allison, Graham T., Jr.
Publisher: Boston Globe
Publication Type: Op-ed
President George W. Bush's decision to award President Vladimir Putin the unique distinction of a weekend in Kennebunkport with two American presidents flummoxed supporters and critics alike. Over...
Published Date: July 2007 More
Debtor Nation: The Rising Risks of the American Dream, on a Borrowed Dime
by Shaw, Jonathan
Publisher: Harvard Magazine
Publication Type: Magazine Article
Consumerism is as American as cherry pie. Plasma TVs, iPods, granite countertops: you name it, we’ll buy it. To finance the national pastime, Americans have been borrowing from abroad on an...
Published Date: July 2007 More
Bargaining with Russia to Contain Iran
by Nye, Joseph S., Jr.
Publisher: Boston Globe
Publication Type: Op-ed
Relations between the United States and Russia have hit their lowest point since the Cold War. Just last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the United States of igniting a global arms...
Published Date: June 2007 More
Life, Liberty, and the Folks Back Home
by Levitt, Peggy
Publisher: Boston Globe
Publication Type: Newspaper Article
First they come to America. Then they start changing the world. It was a puzzling sight: Young women walking in the 80–degree heat, wearing boots and long-sleeved sweaters.
Published Date: May 2007 More
The Global in the Local
by Levitt, Peggy
Publisher: Boston Globe Magazine
Publication Type: Magazine Article
The biggest change the suburbs will see? Immigrants who used to flock mainly to urban areas will build homes, open businesses, and create their own communities right in the middle of Anytown, USA. ...
Published Date: May 2007 More
Immigration in America, Now
by Ashbrook, Tom; Levitt, Peggy
Publisher: WBUR, On Point with Tom Ashbrook
Publication Type: Interview
“For a nation of immigrants, America has always had a complicated relationship with immigration. Some came in splendor, some came in chains, and everything in between. In the half century since...
Published Date: May 2007 More
After Iraq: The Future of the United States in the Middle East
by Kramer, Martin
Publisher: New Republic Online
Publication Type: Magazine Article
The objective of the United States is to protect and advance its interests at the lowest cost, and from the greatest distance. That is easiest done when there is a stable structure of states with...
Published Date: May 2007 More