The Religious Right’s real pioneers came not from the South but Southern California.
March/April 2011
Posted inMagazine, March/April 2011
One Size Doesn’t Fit All
Frederick Hess’s big new school reform idea is that no big new school reform idea works everywhere.
Posted inBooks, Government, Magazine, March/April 2011
Ike Reconsidered
How conservatives ignored, and liberals misconstrued, Eisenhower’s warnings about military spending.
Posted inBooks, Economy, Magazine, March/April 2011
Metropolis on a Hill
Why urban America, once written off, has come back.
Posted inGovernment, Magazine, March/April 2011
Clean Up As You Cook
Every generation, official Washington suddenly notices that the tax code has become unfathomably complex and loophole ridden and therefore needs to be simplified for the sake of fairness and economic efficiency. Major tax reform legislation passed in 1954, 1969, and 1986, and we’re due for another round. Indeed, there seems to be enough genuine interest […]
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, March/April 2011
Rules of Misbehavior
Dan Savage, the brilliant and foul-mouthed sex columnist, has become one of the most important ethicists in America. Are we screwed?
Posted inLaw and Justice, Magazine, March/April 2011
How We Train Our Cops to Fear Islam
There aren’t nearly enough counterterrorism experts to instruct all of America’s police.
So we got these guys instead.
Posted inHealth Care, Magazine, March/April 2011
First Do No Harm
Last year there wasn’t a single fatal airline accident in the developed world. So why is the U.S. health care system still accidently killing hundreds of thousands? The answer is a lack of transparency.
Posted inMagazine, March/April 2011
The ugly truth in twenty-one words… The bakery-industrial complex… Make-believe = survival
Washington at its best I For those of us who came to Washington with John Kennedy, January was a time for both mourning and celebration. On the 20th, a ceremony commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of his inaugural speech was held in the Capitol rotunda. Congressional leaders spoke about how the challenge of “ask not” had […]
