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| Joseph Bankman, Barbara Fried | Flatness and Fairness An examination of the faulty foundations and unjust effects of the flat tax. Shepard Barbash | The Atlanta Project | (An article in the Series-- The New War on Poverty) John Canham-Clyne, | Steffie Woolhandler, David Himmelstein A Rational Option | (An article in the Series-- Is Government Incompetent?) Canham-Clyne, Woolhandler, and Himmrelstein outline a Canada-style health insurance scheme. The authors' case for a single-payer system challenges assumptions about government incompetence and aims to promote more rational policy. Steve Cobble | Response | (An article in the Series-- Reinventing American Democracy) Joshua Cohen, | Joel Rogers After Liberalism | Republicans are wrecking the place; Democrats are watching. What should the rest of us do? Ernesto Cortes, Jr. | Reweaving the Social Fabric | (An article in the Series-- The New War on Poverty) Richard Flacks | Reflections on Strategy in a Dark Time | (Lead article in the Forum-- Strategies for Rebuilding the Left) Radical democracy -- a relic of the 60s, or an idea whose time has come? Nancy Fraser | Reinventing the Welfare State | (Lead article in the Forum-- Reinventing the Welfare State) Welfare reform is not just for policy wonks. It's about the world of work and family we will pass on to the next generation. Marc B. Haefele | Explaining Los Angeles | A review of Mike Davis's City of Quartz and David Rieff's Los Angeles: Capital of the Third World Marc B. Haefele | California Shipwreck | As the state's economy founders, California voters lash out at immigrants with Prop. 187. James Jennings | Poverty and Power | (An article in the Series-- The New War on Poverty) There's a new war on poverty in American cities. James Jennings introduces the key idea -- community empowerment -- and Shepard Barbash, Charlotte Kahn, and Ernesto Cortes report on what's happening in Atlanta, Boston, and San Antonio. Charlotte Kahn | Rebuilding Boston | (An article in the Series-- The New War on Poverty) Celinda Lake | Response | (An article in the Series-- Reinventing American Democracy) Ellen S. Miller | Money, Politics, and Democracy | (An article in the Series-- Reinventing American Democracy) Democracy is not working well when citizens do not vote; when money dominates elections; and when day-to-day politics is a matter of bargaining among large -- typically corporate -- special interests. The problem is that this more or less summarizes the current state of American politics. What, then, should be done? Michael Myers, M.D. | Around Town: Delivering Care
| Ralph Nader | Democratic Revolution in an Age of Autocracy | (An article in the Series-- Reinventing American Democracy) Cynthia Silva Parker | The Struggle for Racial Equality: 1964/1994 | (An article in the Series-- Freedom Summers) Boston Freedom Summer '94 brought the spirit of Freedom Summer '64 to inner-city neighborhoods. Did it work? Maureen Paul | Doctor's Conscience: The Struggle to Provide Abortions Before and After Roe v. Wade
| Jamin B. Raskin | Response | (An article in the Series-- Reinventing American Democracy) Judy Richardson | Rebirth: A Conversation With Students of Boston Freedom Summer | (An article in the Series-- Freedom Summers) Joel Rogers | Why America Needs the New Party | (Lead article in the Forum-- Reviving American Politics: A Debate on the New Party) Vivian Rothstein | Is There a Right to be Homeless? | A longtime advocate for the homeless thinks that current advocacy has gone off the rails. Vivian Rothstein | Reunion | (An article in the Series-- Freedom Summers) Cass R. Sunstein | Is Free Speech the Enemy of Democracy? | (An article in the Series-- Reinventing American Democracy) Rabbi Frank Waldorf | Creation From Nothing | (An article in the Series-- Freedom Summers) Edward N. Wolff | Time for a Wealth Tax?
| A call to address the growing disparity of wealth in the United States. |