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Rick Surpin wanted to create jobs for the poor by creating enterprises for them. In the process, he created a better model of home health care, too.

The preoccupation with scandal has only aggravated the bureaucratic character of public services. A new “paradigm” for public service needs to emphasize quality of service, flexibility, and receptiveness to innovation–not just probity.

During the past decade, the public dialogue surrounding the federal government’s regulation of the financial system has been shallow and morally smug and, above all, blind to the emerging realities of deep disorder. Despite the pattern of recurring financial crises, most commentators have clung to the comforting bromides of laissez faire taught by the Reagan […]

Many commentators are saying that “extremists on both sides” in the abortion debate need to compromise. But a close analysis of current proposals shows that even “moderate” restrictions impose real harm on many women.

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?