The Obama Agenda
(Organization Trends, December 2008 PDF here) Happy campaign supporters of President-elect Barack Obama are packing their bags and buying airline tickets for Washington,…
Organization Trends
Will Better Teachers Fix Education?
Many education reformers are convinced that relying on new alternative ways to recruit teachers will produce better schools. But placing new hires in public schools systems often means displacing tenured…
Google Becomes A Utility
The hubris continues as Google, the Internet search engine company, announces plans to saunter into the unfamiliar world of alternative energy. According to a news report: As part of…
Billionaires and Bloggers
Giving Away Money is Fun The Democratic Party has lost interest in “big ideas” writes University of Virginia political scientist James Caesar in the Weekly…
Christopher DeMuth to Step Down as AEI President
Christopher DeMuth has announced that he will retire as president of the American Enterprise Institute in 2008. DeMuth became president in 1986. Under his leadership AEI’s budget grew from $7.7 million…
John Berthoud, Rest In Peace
At a Capital Research Center reception on June 20, 2007. Left to right: DonorsTrust executive director Whitney Ball, NTU development director Sara Salupo, and John Berthoud. (photo…
Lawyers Gone Wild
That’s the title of a new five-part series on class action lawsuit abuse appearing in the Examiner, a new Washington, DC newspaper that’s giving the Post and the Times a run…
“Energy Independence”
Environmentalist groups want the new Congress to reject common sense policies encouraging more domestic energy production to wean America off foreign energy. Instead, green groups want to discourage energy production…
Code Pink: The Women’s Anti-War Movement
The group Code Pink has seized the leadership of women activists opposed to the war in Iraq. Mixing radical feminists and pacifists with Old and New Left Marxists, Code Pink…
The Southern Poverty Law Center
Obsessed with fundraising, the fabulously wealthy Southern Poverty Law Center exaggerates the scope of racism in the United States to frighten donors into opening their wallets. SPLC is nominally a…