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 ...

Sixty years after its release, the influential and controversial Moynihan Report of 1965 continues to reverberate in the nation’s social welfare policy to the detriment of those it was supposed to ...

D aniel Patrick Moynihan, who died in 2003, might be remembered most for his erudition. During his 25 years in the Senate, ...

John McWhorter has some thoughts on James Patterson’s new book on Daniel Patrick Moynihan and the Moynihan report entitled “Freedom Is Not Enough”. In his critique on The New Republic, McWhorter ...

In 1965, Daniel Patrick Moynihan was roundly criticized for predicting the violent, hopeless future millions of children from broken families now face. Moynihan — a sociologist, diplomat and four-term ...

Fifty years ago, on Nov. 10, 1975, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a patriotic New York liberal, led the West’s fight against the UN’s Zionism is racism resolution. Moynihan called this assault on Israel an ...