Sixty years after its release, panelists at a School of Social Work symposium examined the influential — and controversial — ...

The oft-repeated tropes about the breakdown of the black family can be traced, in large part, to a 1965 Department of Labor report called The Negro Family: A Case for National Action, also known as ...

In the mid-1960s, a social scientist noted something ominous that came to be called “Moynihan’s Scissors”: Two lines on a graph crossed, replicating a scissors’ blades. The descending line charted the ...

Fifty years ago this November, Daniel Patrick Moynihan became an unlikely political star. Then serving as America’s ambassador to the United Nations, Moynihan led the charge against the UN’s infamous ...