June/July/August 2015
Table of Contents
Editor’s Note: Ancient Greece’s Middle-Out Strategy
by Paul Glastris
Tilting at Windmills
Paying Providence … Journalists not jailbirds … Live from New York, it’s election season … by Matthew Cooper
Ten Miles Square
The Monthly Interview: John Sarbanes
A conversation with Representative John Sarbanes, on a new campaign finance idea to get lawmakers more focused on voters than big-money contributors.
Features
The Average Joe’s Proviso
Surprising numbers of white working class voters will support the Democratic agenda-if Democrats promise to reform the government that would carry it out. by Stanley B. Greenberg
Scott Walker’s Real Legacy
What did the Wisconsin governor’s union busting actually accomplish for the “hardworking taxpayers” of his state? And what do his actions tell us about how he might govern as president? by Donald F. Kettl
The Hungary Games
How Hillary Clinton and her diplomats kept authoritarianism at bay in Eastern Europe. by Eleni Kounalakis
Why is America Losing the Commercial Drone Wars?
For years, lobbyists and conservatives have managed to wrap regulatory agencies in ever more procedural red tape. Now those restrictions are hamstringing what ought to be a sprinting American industry. by Konstantin Kakaes
The Post-Ownership Society
How the “sharing economy” allows Millennials to cope with downward mobility, and also makes them poorer. by Monica Potts
Wealth and Generations
By focusing on the growing riches of the “1 percent,” we miss another form of inequality that is bigger, and arguably even more dangerous. by Phillip Longman
The Lost Entrepreneurial Generation?
Millennials are starting fewer businesses than previous generations. Here’s what might be holding them back. by Matthew Connolly
The Young and the Rentless
Can shared equity make homeownership safe for Millennials? by Jordan Fraade
How New Orleans Made Charter Schools Work
Since Katrina, the Crescent City’s schools have produced what some experts believe to be the most rapid academic improvement in American history-and created a reform model other cities are trying. by David Osborne
Pick Your Poison
The GOP Congress is working on a new toxic chemical bill. Should Obama sign it, or wait for the next president to get a better deal? by Heather Rogers
On Political Books
On Not Canonizing the Gipper
Efforts to elevate Ronald Reagan’s reputation to Rooseveltian heights continue. Time to stand athwart historians, and yell “Stop!” by Michael O’Donnell
Low-Information Lawmakers
Why today’s Congress can no longer cope with complex problems. by Lee Drutman
Second Chance, My Ass
Ex-offenders need jobs to stay out of Jail. But easy access to criminal records, a gift of the internet age, means than employers won’t hire them. by Gilad Edelman
The Age of the Disengaged
Are Millennials really more alienated from politics than youth in generations past? by Ryan Cooper
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