Authored by Ryan Goodman and Derek Jinks, this working paper from the University of Chicago’s Public Law and Legal Theory Working Paper series was published first in March 2004, and is due to appear later this year in the Duke Law Journal. In its 57-pages, the paper deals with the ways in which states might effectively change their human rights regime based on various processes of socialization...

Released in November 2004, the fifth annual edition of the Brown Center Report on American Education (as it does every year) analyzes the difficulty of items on the math portion of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), examines the content training of middle school math teachers, and evaluates the Blue Ribbon Schools Program. Some of the initial findings from the report are a bit...

Howard Rheingold is a writer who briefly served as Editor for the HotWired online magazine and authored several books on cognition, technology and virtual communities. This website posts a number of articles, interviews and discussions about his views on the Internet and society. Also posted are online versions of his books, "The Virtual Community," and "Tools for Thought," as well as several...

Urbanologists and others will find that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) archives are quite a pip. In the past several years, HUD has been working to move much of their content over to this site. Here visitors can find budget proposals, affordable housing documents, and transcripts given by HUD officials. Users of the site can browse the materials by topic, and they...

If you're interested in the state of housing, real estate markets, and other related matters, the Housing and Urban Development (HUD) User website will warrant a very close examination. Their coherent and easy-to-use homepage features basic links to their quarterly periodicals, data sets, and a tool designed to help users find research materials on over a dozen topics, including affordable housing...

The Hudson Institute was founded in 1961 by Herman Kahn, and as a research organization they remain committed to "innovative research and analysis that promotes global security, prosperity, and freedom." One of the Institute's Centers is dedicated to exploring religious freedom, and it was started in 1986. On the Center for Religious Freedom's homepage, visitors can read book reviews, op-ed pieces...

The notion of human development is one that is quite old, even if it has not always gone by that name. The United Nations understands human development to be about “creating an environment in which people can develop their full potential and lead productive, creative lives in accord with their needs and interests”. In this way, of course, many ancient city-states and other such communities of...

Every year, many policy specialists and government officials eagerly await the annual Human Development Report issued by the United Nations Development Programme. Released in early November 2006, this year’s report was primarily focused on the issue of water, and they remarked that, “unclean water is an immeasurably greater threat to human security that violent conflict.” Within its 440 page, the...

Released biennially by the United Nations Development Programme, the Human Development Report offers informed commentary and analysis of issues that affect humans across the world. In past years, the report has dealt with civil wars, starvation, economic growth, gender inequality, and a wide range of pressing matters. Released at the end of November 2007, this edition of the Human Development...

The idea of "human rights" is a relatively new development in history, but as this website from Britain's National Archives notes in its discussion of the long trajectory of struggles for equality and so forth, "We could do worse than characterizing this history as the struggle for human rights." This visually compelling online exhibit uses original documents from The National Archives to take a...