ILF POST

By Jane Alexander “A great nation deserves great art”. This is the slogan and the dream of the National Endowment for the Arts. The cultural fire of the ’90s which sought, under the house leadership of Newt Gingrich, to extinguish the NEA, is now mostly ash and the budget has crept quietly up [...]

By Mary Catherine Bateson. Once again, current events, this time the financial crisis, are pressing voters into short term decisions, but it is important to address the current crisis with a positive vision of how the system should work in the long term, and a memory of the steps that led up to it over [...]

By Linc Bloomfield The economy may be in the tank, but the rest of life goes on, including the presidential campaign and the other towering problems that will face the new president at 12:01 PM next January 20. Let’s try to forget the Dow for a moment and look at some of those problems, both [...]