As federal funding dwindles, we need new economic arrangements and political coalitions to unite city and suburb.
Karen Paget
Karen M. Paget, a frequent foundation consultant, is currently a Soros Open Society Institute fellow. She has consulted on state and local fiscal issues for the Ford Foundation and the Twentieth Century Fund. She is the author of ‘The Battle for the States,’ in The New Majority.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
State of the Debate: Lessons of Right-Wing Philanthropy
It is well known that the conservative movement has for years enjoyed a decided financial advantage on the battleground of ideas — they have far more corporate and foundation support than liberals. But conservatives don’t just have more money; they spend it better, too.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Balanced Budget Trap
Absolute budget balance has become orthodoxy; a constitutional amendment to enforce it may pass Congress even if Democrats win the elections. But look at the costs.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Can’t Touch This?: The Pentagon’s Budget Fortress
Defense experts with impeccable conservative credentials say we could cut the Pentagon budget without endangering our security. So why is no one listening?
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Big Chill
Has the right’s campaign to “defund the left” intimidated large foundations? In fact, tax-exempt organizations of all kinds have far more latitude to promote social change than many of them realize.
Posted inFeatures
The Roots of Rage
Blowback: The Cost and Consequences of the American Empire, by Chalmers Johnson. Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, 288 pages, $15.00 (paper). Americans around the world are targets of terrorist attacks. Not just soldiers such as those killed on the USS Cole in Yemen this fall, but civilians, as well. Last year the State Department […]
Posted inCivil Rights in America
The Gender Gap Mystique
Women are newly influential in politics, but those who court the gender gap on the cheap will not succeed. Women’s interests, issues, and voting preferences are every bit as complex as men’s — and demand equal respect.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Diversity at Berkeley: Demagoguery or Demography?
The case for Cal’s admissions policy, designed to mirror the state’s population.
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Citizen Organizing: Many Movements, No Majority
Citizen politics aims to spur a democratic resurgence at the grassroots. But as other forms of democratic participation decline, can citizen organizing make a difference?