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Picking Charities
It’s Relay for Life time again, so I’ve been thinking a bit about how charities raise money and which charities I’d like to support with a college student’s meager donations. More than twice as many Americans participate in Relay...
GOP Losing to Dems in Fundraising Battle?
So says the Washington Post. This is probably the worst news we’ve heard for the GOP since the revelations about the RNC-funded trip to a lesbian-themed bondage night club in LA. Or was it a bondage-themed lesbian night club? Speaking of which,...
Midterm Madness
A Republican resurgence in the 2010 election? One year into the Obama presidency, the Democrats have faltered on key initiatives, most notably health care...
Funding Innovation for HBCUs
Dr. John Silvanus Wilson on the new administration’s approach to supporting Historically Black Colleges and Universities Harvard Political Review:...
He Works Hard for his Party
Terry McAuliffe on the Democratic Party in 2009 Terry McAuliffe has been helping democrats get elected for decades. He formerly served as the chairman...
Reform They Can Believe In
Politicians’ Self-Interest and the Future of Campaign Finance Reform The debate surrounding campaign finance reform has too long revolved around esoteric...
Reflections on a Winning Campaign
David Plouffe discusses the 2008 race and campaign reform David Plouffe was the chief campaign manager for President Obama’s 2008 race. He has consulted...
Spontaneous Combustion
This is the best fodder for late-night comedy I’ve seen since the last time Michael Steele spoke. It is encouraging that most people seem appalled, but some...
Big Aspirations, Smaller Results
How much have Texan oilmen shaped America? Reporter Brian Burrough follows his last corporate epic, Barbarians at the Gate, with a new book, The Big Rich,...
Doing Well in Doing Good
Can capitalism work for charity? Economists are no strangers to knee-jerk argumentation. Their soundest arguments are often those that strike most sharply...
Current Issue: Spring 2010
Religion in America
- Is Godless Great? A New Heyday for American Secularism
The American Way of Faith Compromise, innovation, and tradition
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