From DC Streets Blog: The media loves drama, of course. As your high school English teacher explained it, if Hamlet doesn’t get pissed about his dad’s murder or if Atticus Finch doesn’t step up to defend a black man falsely...
Read MoreThe churches moving from mainstream Presbyterianism to anti-gay, hidebound fundamentalist Presbyterianism are on the wrong side of history and religion. For the first time in history, the most religious country in the...
Read MoreIn today’s economy and today’s business environment, all business advances have an international impact. Every new development, every advancement is embraced across the globe. While that may be very evident in such industries...
Read MoreFrom The Prospect: By Mark Kleiman Why reducing incarceration and victimization should be complementary goals Despite the dramatic fall in crime rates since 1994, crime continues to impose massive social costs, strongly...
Read MoreWe wrote Monday about the need for probation programs to move from being a joke to becoming a force for decreased recidivism. A friend sends us this interesting article from Governing magazine about how it’s being done in...
Read MoreEverybody wants government to be more businesslike until it comes to their special interest. The emerging example appears to be the Mid-South Coliseum, a building lacking any purpose that makes economic or historical...
Read MoreWe continue to be puzzled here by the arch-conservative and Tea Party beliefs that government should have no money invested in the human capital or social needs of Americans. As we’ve written before, government is being...
Read MoreFrom New York Times: Businesses Stand to Gain Most in Rivalry of States By A. G. SULZBERGER KANSAS CITY, Mo. — This city, sharing a name with one state but settled in another, has a long history of ugly border skirmishes dating...
Read MoreFrom TruthDig: By Chris Hedges A nation that destroys its systems of education, degrades its public information, guts its public libraries and turns its airwaves into vehicles for cheap, mindless amusement becomes deaf, dumb and...
Read MoreFrom the Futures of School Reforms blog: By Robert Schwartz One of the issue areas I’ve paid most attention to in the last few years is teacher policy, an area in which it is pretty clear that the U.S. has a lot to...
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