In this second installment of the “Kicking Away the Ladder” series, we explore how the upper middle class and wealthy have extremely high rates of intact nuclear families, while encouraging the poor to stay in dysfunctional single-family households.
A bill to legalize same-sex marriage has gone down to defeat in Illinois, much the surprise and chagrin of homosexual activists. ...
The last 21 years have seen major changes in how Americans of different generations (e.g., “Baby Boomers” vs. “Millenials” or “Generation X”) prioritize...
Delegates at the most recent national meeting of the United Church of Christ (UCC) agreed overwhelmingly July 4 to strike the term “heavenly...
Does anxiety over what some fundamentalists believe is the coming "biblical apocalypse" motivate Republicans to vote for a particular candidate? ...
The original American Progressive movement spanned from approximately 1890 to 1920. It began as a movement to bring about social and political reform,...
California’s Proposition 8, a state constitutional amendment passed by voters in 2008 that defines marriage as between a man and a woman, went...