Pengarang: Jennifer Mittelstadt

In 1996, Democratic president Bill Clinton and the Republican-controlled Congress ‘ended welfare as we know it’ and trumpeted ‘workfare’ as a dramatic break from the past. But, in fact, workfare was …

Welfare has been central to a number of significant political debates in modern America:

• What role should the government play in alleviating poverty?
• What does a governme …

Welfare has been central to a number of significant political debates in modern America:

• What role should the government play in alleviating poverty?
• What does a governme …

Throughout its history, the U.S. military has worked in close connection to market-based institutions and structures. It has run systems of free and unfree labor, taken over private sector firms, and …

Since the end of the draft, the U.S. Army has prided itself on its patriotic volunteers who heed the call to "Be All That You Can Be." But beneath the recruitment slogans, the army promised …

In 1996, Democratic president Bill Clinton and the Republican-controlled Congress "ended welfare as we know it" and trumpeted "workfare" as a dramatic break from the past. But, in …

The country s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, its interventions around the world, and its global military presence make war, the military, and militarism defining features of contemporary American life …