No Funds Left Behind
As states slash education budgets, private foundations have picked up the slack—and pushed some controversial reforms.
The Destruction of Black Wealth
Businesses owned by African Americans are suffering at higher rates than most during the downturn.
The Cost of Financial Favoritism
If Republicans and Democrats can’t find common ground on giving assistance to small banks and Community Development Financial Institutions, they aren’t liable to agree on anything.
The Credit Drought
It’s hard for small businesses to get a leg up in this sluggish economy.
Freelance Nation
Progressives need to make government work better by helping out entrepreneurs and the self-employed.
Too Small to Bail?
An interview with Sheila Bair.
Capital Ideas Online
This story appeared in our March 2012 issue. Subscribe here. When Robert Frohwein was driving along Silicon Valley’s Sand Hill Road in search of venture capital, he could practically hear the laughter. The year was 2008, when venture firms were hesitant about any new investments, much less the kind of online lending company that Frohwein…
Watergate Finally Gets Its Novel
Thomas Mallon’s new fiction humanizes the ultimate D.C. scandal.
Susan B. Anthony’s Hit List
How a group founded by anti-abortion feminists became a powerful foe of Democratic women.
Three Big Tax Lies
And two must-read new books that finally debunk them.
Wall Street’s Third Party
Will Americans Elect upend the presidential election?
What It Feels Like to Be Poor
Katherine Boo chronicles the intimate realities of poverty in an Indian slum.
The Inside Track
Luck, HBO’s horse-racing series, is about the other American pastime: gaming the system.
Mitt Romney, Hero of Finance
Romney’s backers say he did the tough work needed to restructure the economy. Actually, he seized opportunities that the tax, securities, and bankruptcy laws should never have given him.
