Sublime

The dominant political forces will be those beneath median income and those in the upper quarter, with the rest being between the two. There will also be an ideological realignment of a retreating Reagan-era free-market group, a resurgent class who are focused on outcome, and the outcome they will want is a redistribution of income and even of alre

the traditionalists who “resisted the cultural changes set into motion during the sixties” and “identified with the normative Americanism of the 1950s” seemed to have lost the culture wars of the 1980s and 1990s.

Over the last four decades, journalists have learned how to analyze data to detect fraud, reveal government spending patterns, track demographic trends, and more. A number of nonprofits now use the same methods to fuel their data-driven policy analysis and advocacy.

Between 1974 and 2008 “the average amount it took to run for reelection to the House went from $56,000 to more than $1.3 million.”3 In 1974 the total spent by all candidates for Congress (both House and Senate) was $77 million. By 1982 that number was $343 million—a 450 percent increase in eight years.4 By 2010 it was $1.8 billion—a 525 percent inc

By late 2017, Berkeley had replaced Oxford as the financial capital of effective altruism. One reason for this was that Facebook cofounder Dustin Moskovitz and his wife, Cari Tuna, signaled their intent to give away most of their multibillion-dollar fortune to effective altruist causes—but there were others. Oxford was still the movement’s intellec

Milton Shapp