Barack Obama's election as president in 2008 generated widespread hope that the United States was entering a new era whereby government, in a reversal of Ronald Reagan's famous dictum, would be the so
American foreign policy is in severe crisis. The system and process are not working as they should. On one side we are beset by a seemingly uninformed policy, on the other by paralysis and gridlock. T
The chair of the non-profit, non-partisan public advocacy organization, The Common Good, discusses how dead rules and outmoded laws inhibit policy changes and paralyze officials and citizens and argue
A lawyer and proponent of government overhaul describes the problems caused by well-intentioned but outdated laws that have led to special interest entitlements and become dead weight and advocates fo
The concluding volume of The New York Times bestselling trilogyOne of today?s most outspoken and respected political commentators asks: How can our democracy function when the key institutions of gove
Griffin analyzes claims that the US government is dysfunctional and needs to be altered, then presents his own views. He covers whether the government is dysfunctional; policy disasters and the consti
Fourteen years ago, famous Pakistani activist Samina Akram disappeared. Two years earlier, her lover, Pakistan's greatest poet, was beaten to death by government thugs. In present-day Karachi, her dau
With a meteor days away from causing an extinction-level event on Earth, time is running out for Elena Marlowe. While most of the planet’s population and her family were approved by the government to
One part memoir, one part political platform, Of Grunge and Government is the first book by Krist Novoselic, the bass player and founding member of Nirvana - the most heralded and influential rock ba
Silicon Valley, Singapore, Tel Aviv--the global hubs of entrepreneurial activity--all bear the marks of government investment. Yet, for every public intervention that spurs entrepreneurial activity, t
Colonel S--biomedical engineer, explosives expert, and the Maylasian's government go-to hitman--has been doing the dirty work of the rich and corrupt for years now and is ready for his final job. One
In writing the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, our Founding Fathers established a democratic republic with a solid political basis. What they wrote was the political map that future
