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Opinion: Why Norman Rockwell Left Thanksgiving Americana Behind
Opinion: Why Norman Rockwell Left Thanksgiving Americana Behind
Opinion: Why Norman Rockwell Left Thanksgiving Americana Behind
The Washington Post, Nov. 24, 2021
Look shone a harsh light on racism and racial injustice from its earliest days in the late 1930s until it folded in 1971. Novelist Wallace Stegner, writing for Look in 1945, denounced the “insidious illness” of prejudice, segregation as “the shame of democracy,” and “the slimy propaganda shoveled out by demagogues.”
More Niche Media Options Have Led to a More Fractured America
Opinion: Why Norman Rockwell Left Thanksgiving Americana Behind
Opinion: Why Norman Rockwell Left Thanksgiving Americana Behind
The Baltimore Sun, Nov. 5, 2021
By comparison, Look's serialization of Manchester's "Death of a President" was said to have been read by 70 million Americans
A look back at the magazine that exposed Emmett Till’s killers
Opinion: Why Norman Rockwell Left Thanksgiving Americana Behind
A look back at the magazine that exposed Emmett Till’s killers
Articles and Op-eds
U.S. History
"Alaska Natives Try a Taste of Capitalism" (New York Times Magazine, March 17, 1985)
"Kindly Reflections on the Carter Era" (New York Times, Nov. 19, 1990)
"The Big Postwar Story: Abundance and the Rise of Economic Journalism" (Journalism History 32: 2,, Jan. 2006)
"Utopia Lost" (Los Angeles Times, Feb. 25, 2006)
"America's Story" (Baltimore Sun, May 6, 2006)
"Beyond Civics and the 3 R's: Teaching Economics in the Schools" (History of Education Quarterly 48:3, Aug. 2008)
"History of U.S. Children's Policy, 1900-Present" (First Focus, April 2009)
"Selling a New Vision of America to the World Changing Messages in Early U.S. Cold War Print Propaganda," (Journal of Cold War Studies 11:4, Fall 2009)
"A History of Federal Child Antipoverty and Health Policy in the United States Since 1900" (Child Development Perspectives 5:1, Feb. 2011)
"Sara Oberholtzer and the School Savings Bank Movement" (Pennsylvania Legacies 12:2, Nov. 2012)
"The Good LBJ: A Long List of Achievements" (Philadelphia Inquirer, Jan. 12, 2014)
"When 'Liberal' and 'Business' Belonged in the Same Sentence" (Milken Institute Review, May 19, 2020)
"Fortune Magazine in the 1940s and 1950s" (Milken Institute Review, Sept. 15, 2020)
"Sometimes a Great Notion: American Thrift, Past and Future" (Milken Institute Review, Oct. 23, 2020)
"Harry Truman’s Radical Health Care Plan" (Milken Institute Review, Feb. 18, 2021
"Is Federally Funded Child Care a Thing of the Past?" (Milken Institute Review, June 2, 2021)
"Automation Was/Is Out to Get Us" (Milken Institute Review, Sept. 8, 2021)
"Why Norman Rockwell Left Thanksgiving Americana Behind" (The Washington Post, Nov. 24, 2021)
"A Look Back at the Magazine that Exposed Emmett Till's Killers" (New York Daily News, Dec. 9, 2021)
Poverty, Low-Wage Work, and Inequality
"The Color of Inequality" (Baltimore Sun, May 20, 2010)
"Politics of Poverty" blog (Oxfam, 2012-16)
"Inequality--USA" (International Organizations Research Journal 8:3, 2013)
"Raising Pay, Easing Hunger" (Philadelphia Inquirer, Nov. 30, 2014)
"Bring Back Thrift" (USA Today, Dec. 25, 2014)
"Holiday Bounty Eludes Low-Wage Working Families" (South Florida Sun Sentinel, Jan. 5, 2015)
"Americans' Low Savings Rate--A Bad Sign for a Good Economy" (The Fiscal Times, April 26, 2015)
"U.S. Jobs Growing, but Most Will Pay $15 of Less" (San Francisco Chronicle, Dec. 11, 2015)
"Are Americans Popping too Many Pain Pills" (Aspen Institute, May 18, 2016)
"Forget the 1 Percent, What About the 45 Percent?" Baltimore Sun, July 16, 2016)
"Income and Savings Advocates Share Common Goal" (Philadelphia Inquirer, July 25, 2016)
"Wall Street's Coronavirus Panic Means Little for Americans Without Wealth to Invest" (USA Today, Feb. 25, 2020)
Men's Issues
"Our Young Men are Hurting and Hurting Others," NY Daily News, July 6, 2022
"American Masculinity's Split Personality" (Baltimore Sun, July 15, 2010
"The Rise of a New Economic UnderclassMillennial Men" (The Fiscal Times, June 10, 2015)
"What's Happening to Failing White Men?" (Washington Monthly, Jan. 12, 2016)
"Fathers' Unemployment Taking a Huge Toll on Children" (San Francisco Chronicle, April 27, 2017)
"Rampant Misogyny Online Debases a Culture that Once Valued Gallantry" (San Francisco Chronicle, Sept. 6, 2018)
"I spoke to hundreds of American men who still can’t find work: Ten years since the financial crisis and millions of American men aren’t working" (Vox, Sept. 17, 2018)
"All the Lonely Men" (Jewish World Review, Oct. 25, 2018)
"The Male Non-working Class" (Milken Institute Review, July 30, 2020)
"Why Progressives Should Stop Avoiding Men's Issues" (Washington Post, Jan. 18, 2019)
"In the Trenches of the Gender Wars" (San Francisco Chronicle, Jan. 31, 2019)
"Men are People Too" (Baltimore Sun, May 14, 2019)
"Outliving My Father" (Voice Male, March 1, 2020)
"When it Comes to Health, Men are the Weaker Sex" (Milken Institute Review, Dec. 8, 2021)
U.S. Politics
"Third Party Celebrates in Second Year" (New York Times, July 27, 1992)
"Citizenship Means Giving Something Back" (Denver Post, May 3, 2007, with Monica Healy)
"Shared Values, Shared Benefits" (Baltimore Sun, March 13, 2011)
"Will Our Leaders Be Able to Lead?" (Baltimore Sun, Aug. 2, 2011)
"Cuomo v. Cuomo on Casinos" (NY Daily News, Jan. 4, 2012, with David Blankenhorn)
"Trump Administration Must Base Policy on Science" (San Francisco Chronicle, Nov. 17, 2016)
"Democrats are Giving Up on White Men. That's a Big Mistake" (USA Today, Oct. 18, 2018)
"Biden Has White Men to Thank for Putting Him in the White House" (USA Today, Nov. 29, 2020)
"Media Watchdogs, Attack Dogs, and Lapdogs" (NY Daily News, June 6, 2021)
American Culture and Society
"Hadassah Celebrates 75 Years of Helping" (New York Times, Jan. 23, 1987)
"Celebrities of Summer are Cashing In" (New York Times, Sept. 28, 1987)
"Our Posterity Deficit" (with Marc Freedman, Baltimore Sun, Jan. 12, 2010)
"Falling Marriage Rates Reveal Economic Fault Lines" (New York Times, Feb. 6, 2015)
"The End of 'Mad Men' and the Sense of American Greatness" (San Francisco Chronicle, April 12, 2015)
"Marriage, Poverty, and the Political Divide" (New York Times, Jan. 24, 2016)
"In Public We're All Preoccupied with Ourselves" (San Francisco Chronicle, April 13, 2016)
"The Rise of the Grandfamily: Inside the Innovative DC Housing Development for Grandfamilies" (Washington Post, Jan. 22, 2019
"A Root Beer Start-up, an Energy Drink Company and an Ugly Trademark Battle" (Washington Post, Oct. 26, 2019)
"Letter from a Small Wisconsin Town" (Milken Institute Review, April 15, 2020)
"Love and Death: The Legacy of Congressional Cemetery's Gay Corner" (Washington Post, Aug. 22, 2021)
"Niche Media Options Has Led to a More Fractured America" (Baltimore Sun, Nov. 5, 2021)
French Politics
"Emmanuel Macron May Not Be Loved. . ." Milken Review, Feb. 24, 2022
"Why French Presidential Candidate Emmanuel Macron Could Save Western Democracy" (Washington Monthly, March 2, 2017)
"French election a victory for hope, defeat for Trumpism, Putinism" (NY Daily News, May 8, 2017)
"Emmanuel Macron’s Victory Holds Hope for France, and Lessons for America" (Washington Monthly, May 8, 2017)
"How French expats in Washington are Preparing for an Election Back Home "(Washington Post, May 17, 2019)
"France: Economic History" (Booms and Busts:An Encyclopedia of Economic History from the First Stock Market Crash of 1792 to the Current Global Economic Crisis, 2010)
Obama, Lula and Sarkozy are models of the 21st century (Terra, Jan. 18, 2009)
U.S. Federal Finances and Debt
"Chump Change Budget Cuts" (Los Angeles Times, with Isabel V. Sawhill, Nov. 12, 2005)
"Rising Debt is Very Scary" (Mother Jones, April 4, 2006, with Diane Lim Rogers)
"The Perils of Living for Today" (Baltimore Sun, April 8, 2009, with Addison Wiggin)
"Why Students Need to Be Informed about Our Looming Fiscal Crisis: The America's Future Initiative" (PS: Political Science and Politics 43:2, April 2010, with Cecilia M. Orphan)
Children, Education and Child Policy
"Older Parents' Child: Growing Up Special" (New York Times, Jan. 26, 1987)
"Let's Get Children Moving Toward a Healthier Future" (Baltimore Sun, March 9, 2006)
"Americans Losing Faith in College Education" (Philadelphia Inquirer, July 12, 2007)
"Beyond Civics and the Three 'R's': Teaching Economics in the Schools" (History of Education Quarterly, vol. 48, no. 1, August 2008)
"Children First" (Baltimore Sun, May 29, 2009)
"State of Mind" (Education Week, Oct. 19, 2009)
"K-12, Parents and the Public" blog (Education Week, 2010)
"If Our Children are So Precious, We Must Invest in Them" (San Francisco Chronicle, Dec. 22, 2017)
"Revive White House Conferences on Children" (RealClear Policy, Feb. 25, 2021)
"Free Community College: Been There, Done That" (Milken Institute Review, June 21, 2021)
Arts and Letters
"A Date with Serenity at the Cloisters" (New York Times, June 13, 1986)
"Accustomed to His Latest Face" (New York Times, Feb. 1, 1988)
"Nevelson Estate is the Focus of a Battle" (New York Times, June 10, 1989)
"Conservators Named for de Kooning Assets" (New York Times, Aug. 19, 1989)
"Keith Haring, Artist, Dies at 31; Career Began in Subway Graffiti" (New York Times, Feb. 17, 1990)
"A Lucrative Crime Grows Into a Costly Epidemic" (New YorkTimes, March 20, 1990)
"Expansion at the Brooklyn Museum" (New York Times, April 28, 1990)
"Treasures of the Bibliotheque" (New York Times, Nov. 4, 1990)
"Clifford Geertz, Cultural Anthropologist, is Dead at 80" (New York Times, Nov. 1, 2006)
"Eugen Weber, Authority on Modern France, Dies at 82" (New York Times, May 22, 2007)
"John Hope Franklin, Scholar of African-American History, is Dead at 94" (New York Times, March 25, 2009)
"Humanism and Deutschtum: The Origins, Development, and Consequences of the Politics of Poetry in the George-Kreis" (The Germanic Review, 1983)