Often confused with one another, rap and hip-hop were significant parts of the American music and culture scene of the 1980s. Hip-hop is the cultural scene defined by four elements: deejaying ...

It is the idea that America is a corrupt and sinful nation that needs to be punished. Punitive liberalism fell out of favor in the 1980s, but crept back in the 1990s — and became a nasty ...

The author’s latest book examines the tension between religious and political conservatives and secular popular artists and ...

In Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa, sustained growth proved elusive. If the wringing out of inflation and the global opening up of markets were expected to strengthen economic growth, most of the ...