Video from Washington Monthly and New America event,“Jobs Are Not Enough” Introduction: Jobs Are Not Enough By Paul Glastris and Phillip Longman The Hole in the Bucket Americans obsessed over personal finance during the last forty years as never before. So how come so many of us wound up broke? Here’s the little-known story. By […]
July/August 2012
Posted inJuly/August 2012, Magazine
Tilting at Windmills
The bias toward seeing pro-Obama bias Arthur S. Brisbane, the ombudsman for the New York Times, wrote a column this spring urging his paper’s reporters to take “a hard look at the president,” implying that they had not been doing so. His main evidence of pro-Obama bias dated from the 2008 campaign and the president’s […]
Posted inBooks, July/August 2012, Magazine, Politics
The Ascent of Chris Christie
George W. Bush nicknamed him “Big Boy.” Will Mitt Romney call him “my running mate”?
Posted inBooks, July/August 2012, Magazine, Politics
Tempting but Insane
Should the South just be its own country?
Posted inBooks, Government, July/August 2012, Magazine
Young Guns
Obama’s surprisingly strong national security record owes much to a group of youthful aides few Americans have heard of.
Posted inJuly/August 2012, Magazine, Politics
The Power Broker
San Francisco’s ex-mayor Willie Brown has pioneered a new way to control a city without breaking a sweat—or running for office, or getting elected, or disclosing his clients, or making anyone particularly mad.
Posted inGovernment, Health Care, July/August 2012, Magazine
No Place Like Home
An innovative foster care program for disabled vets points the way to solving two of the nation’s greatest challenges at the same time.
Posted inEconomy, Government, July/August 2012, Magazine
DIY B&B
The Internet is enabling more and more Americans to leverage their biggest asset, their home, by renting rooms to travelers. So why are local governments trying to shut them down?
Posted inEconomy, July/August 2012, Magazine
Rooftop Revenue
Government helps big corporations make billions off green energy. How about cutting the average family in on the deal?
Posted inEconomy, Education, Higher Education, July/August 2012, Magazine
The Assets Between Your Ears
The new movement to give college credit for the things you already know.
