White nationalism is on the rise in America. With his nationalist rhetoric and policies, President Trump has become part of this continuum, giving license to millions to express their white grievance in new ways and refusing to condemn or prosecute their violence in any meaningful way. If this makes America great “again,” white nationalism must […]
Children from disadvantaged households and violent neighborhoods often do less well in school than peers from more economically comfortable backgrounds. Researchers have documented this repeatedly – in studies of individual children and through comparisons of schools, districts, states, and nations. Savage inequalities describe the striking differences between public schools serving students of color in urban […]
Leonardo DiCaprio’s Claim to Global Fame More than six weeks before the “Titanic” opened in the United States, 20th Century Fox launched the film at the Tokyo Film Festival. The hope was to generate an early buzz in the untapped Asian market. At the time, Jim Gianopulos was Paramount chief running international distribution at Fox. […]