A multibillion-dollar Chicago project provides a glimpse of urban poverty solutions that might actually make a difference. Ryan Blitstein takes a look in the February issue of Miller-McCune.
Dec 29th, 2008
A multibillion-dollar Chicago project provides a glimpse of urban poverty solutions that might actually make a difference. Ryan Blitstein takes a look in the February issue of Miller-McCune.
Nov 6th, 2008
One thing I forgot to mention in last night’s post is the cadre of prominent African-Americans in their 40s and 50s that will follow Obama to Washington. The Wall Street Journal did an excellent piece on this group today: For more than a decade, Mr. Obama has cultivated ties with a growing circle of black [...]
A friend passed along the David Brooks NYT article on why Barack Obama’s generation is different from the Baby Boomers. There are some great insights here, but they’d be much stronger if Brooks didn’t get his generations mixed up. My favorite graf: The baby boomers, who entered adulthood promising a lifetime of activism, have been [...]
Sep 11th, 2008
Normally I can’t deal with David Leonhardt (I still get sort of angry when I think about the 2005 “Class Matters” series in the Times and how terrible it was) so it took me awhile to get around to reading the NYT mag story on Barack Obama’s views on the economy. Long, but well worth [...]