Capitalism is in the throes of its most severe crisis in many decades. A combination of deep recession, global economic dislocations, and…
Obama inherits a global economic crisis, two wars in which US and allied troops are deployed, crises in the Middle East and South Asia, and…
The School District of Philadelphia, in the summer of 2002, at the request of the State of
Pennsylvania, asked for-profit and nonprofit…
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President Obama is now three weeks into his new job -- annual salary $400,000 -- and already he and his team are working overtime to make…
I recently had a conversation with a longtime friend whose house burned several months ago. Before the fire, he had been planning some…
A field is emerging that leverages the capacity to collect and analyze data at a scale that may reveal patterns of individual and group…
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Few philosophers have done more good than Locke and Montesquieu, whose advocacy of divided government inspired America's Founders. Our…