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Government

Opening the Asylum Doors

THE INSANITY OFFENSE: How America's Failure to Treat the Seriously Mentally Ill Endangers Its Citizens by E. Fuller Torrey

By Stephen P. Hinshaw | Fall 2008
 

Government

Crisis of Democracy

SUPERCAPITALISM: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life by Robert Reich

By Carl Schramm | Fall 2008
 

Nonprofits

Research: Catching Charisma

Charismatic people spread happiness and well-being.

By Alana Conner | Fall 2008
 

Government

Research: Can’t Buy Me Democracy

Economics don't necessarily determine politics.

By Alana Conner | Fall 2008
 

Philanthropy

Research: Help People Do the Right Thing

Just do it...later.

By Alana Conner | Fall 2008
 

Business

The Rise of Other Nations

THE POST-AMERICAN WORLD by Fareed Zakaria

By John Kao | Fall 2008
 

Philanthropy

Where Nice Is Naughty

In most parts of the world, strangers helping strangers is strange.

By Alana Conner | Summer 2008
 

Government

Red and Blue Revisited

The more race- and sex-segregated the county, the more Republican it votes.

By Alana Conner | Spring 2008
 

Nonprofits

Aim for the Middle

To persuade a whole group, start by changing the minds of a few moderates.

By Alana Conner | Spring 2008
 

Philanthropy

With Love Comes War

Xenophobia and altruism may have evolved hand in hand.

By Alana Conner | Spring 2008
 

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