Fixing schools may mean sticking to the "no excuses" model: the philosophy that every child can succeed and neither family dysfunction nor poor preparation is sufficient reason for failure.
Eric Liebetrau assesses Jay Parini's quest to find thirteen books that changed America.
In Dnepropetrovsk, the secret rocket-making city in eastern Ukraine that, during the Soviet era, was closed to outsiders, the rock musical Jesus Christ Superstar is credited with an underground evangelicalism that took hold among the youth during the 1970s.
Max Byrd says that biographer Jon Meacham sums up Andrew Jackson's antithetical personality: "commanding, shrewd, intuitive yet not especially articulate, alternately bad-tempered and well-mannered."
Researchers investigating the "broken windows theory" of crime control found that people are twice as likely to steal from a graffiti-covered mailbox as from one that's pristine.
Allison Herling Ruark and Daniel Halperin on AIDS in Africa.
Brooke Allen reviews two biographies of a man we thought we knew, Samuel Johnson.
A new way of war is on the horizon. Already, robots and drones are replacing human pilots and foot soldiers in some roles, and in the future they will take over many more. The benefits of removing human soldiers from harm’s way are obvious. But there’s a price to pay when a society can wage war by remote control.
Just as you always suspected, referees really do favor the home team.
Grant Alden ultimately applauds a book that helps us understand something about the carefully crafted visuals that have become so much a part of our shared culture.