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We Need Smaller Classrooms

By Colin Greer on February 24, 2010

In popular education debate, charter schools are vying with public schools. But it would actually make more sense to consider the common denominator that makes some charter schools and some public schools more successful than others.

It's Not the Deficit Stupid!

By Colin Greer on January 18, 2010

A record budget deficit coupled with increased government spending has much of America in an uproar.

A Just Society

By Colin Greer on November 18, 2009

In case you thought income inequality wasn’t bad enough, the 2008 recession made it worse. September Census Bureau stats for 2008 household income show a decline in incomes across the board, but less of a decline for those in higher brackets.

Boom and Bust

By Colin Greer on November 04, 2009

We are now seeing in the extreme what happens in a boom and bust cycle–when the “boom” years are followed by a bleak period after the bubble bursts.

A Case for Public Spending

By Colin Greer on October 25, 2009

When thinking about public spending it is helpful to think about gender relations and the fight for gender equality.

For the Record

By Colin Greer on October 16, 2009

In the current Economist there are 2 letters to the editor by leading public intellectuals, Daniel Bell and Nathan Glazer (thought by many to have been neo-cons because of their friendships with

Up From Poverty

By Colin Greer on October 14, 2009

No one says, they want people to be poor, but plenty say, 'we don’t want to spend public money on social programs to help the poor'. The result is that the poor continue to get poorer and right-wing politician and fearful liberals hold on even tighter to their wallets.

A New Commandment

By Colin Greer on October 08, 2009

Could we make a rule — a kind of eleventh commandment -- which requires us, every time we honor soldiers killed in battle, to remember: thou shall not kill?

Ayn Rand Redux

By Colin Greer on October 01, 2009

Ayn Rand is popular again. Her most popular novels Atlas Shrugged from 1957 and The Fountainhead from 1943 are still being bought in large numbers. While it's plainly fashionable for right wing activists and pundits to bandy about her ideas to discredit the Obama administration, it's worth remembering one thing...

Politics of Calm Revisited

By Colin Greer on September 24, 2009

President Obama is keeping his cool on health care and most other progressive issues despite the fact that forceful words and strong convictions may actually fare better with the American public.

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