Mark Stricherz

Doing the Best I Can: Fatherhood in the Inner City ?by kathryn edin and ?timothy j. nelson? california, 294 pages, $29.95 Our cultural consensus about lower-class single dads is bleak: They are on a road to perdition without the picturesque, thrilling detours that mobsters, jewel thieves, and rock . . . . Continue Reading »

In 1968, Hillary Rodham was little more than an outsider in the Democratic party. Rodham was a member of a meritocratic elite in a mass party; a white-collar, mainline Protestant, suburban woman in a national party run by blue-collar, Catholic, urban men. In fact, her ties with the party were thin. . . . . Continue Reading »