An innovative foster care program for disabled vets points the way to solving two of the nation’s greatest challenges at the same time.
John Gravois
John Gravois is a senior editor at Wired.
Posted inJuly/August 2012
Too Important to Fail
Predatory lending still poses a systemic risk to the economy. Will Obama’s new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau succeed in taming it, or will the agency be strangled in its crib?
Posted inPolitical Animal, Politics
Today, the Monthly; Tomorrow, Journalism Itself
Here at the Washington Monthly, our cardinal mission is to help you see the clockwork of government, politics, and public life more clearly. But we also have another big calling: minting great editors and writers and sending them out into the world. Over the course of its 40 years, the Monthly has launched the careers […]
Posted inPolitical Animal, Politics
New Records in Non-fiction
This February, the Pulitzer-prize winning writer Katherine Boo will come out with a new book based on three years of reporting inside a Mumbai slum, called “Behind the Beautiful Forevers.” Even if this doesn’t sound like your usual cup of tea, take this as a tip: you’ll probably be hearing a fair bit about this […]
Posted inEducation, Higher Education, Magazine, September/October 2011
The College For-profits Should Fear
By offering adults an education that is faster, cheaper, and better than the likes of Kaplan, Phoenix, or Capella, the nonprofit Western Governors University just might eat their lunch.
Posted inJuly/August 2011, Magazine
The Lions of Lagos, the Rotarians of Rawalpindi
How the civic groups that once defined America are thriving abroad, and what it means for us.
Posted inPolitics
Shotguns on the Levee
My aunt Gloria was born in the summer of 1927 on the Westbank of the Mississipi River, in the little town of Edgard, Louisiana, about 30 miles upstream from New Orleans. But in the months leading up to her arrival, my grandparents worried she would be born elsewhere. The worst river flood in American history […]
Posted inPolitics
Humiliation Counterterrorism
The spate of Bin Laden home videos the White House released last week–which Jack Shafer over at Slate aptly calls “the putz videos“–show the Al Qaeda mastermind wearing a dyed beard and scrolling through TV channels looking for himself on the news. The obvious propaganda takeaway, in Shafer’s estimation, is that “Bin Laden had so […]
Posted inGovernment, Magazine, March/April 2011
More Bureaucrats, Please
Washington’s budget hawks want to decimate the federal workforce to shrink the deficit. It will have the opposite effect.
Posted inMagazine, November 2010
The Closing of the Marijuana Frontier
California is not just deciding whether pot should be legal. Itís determining the shape of a major new American industry.
