Author: matt

Instead of mass incarceration, mandatory minimum sentencing, more police, and an overall get-tough-on crime approach, there is a better way to reduce crime: stabilize neighborhoods where crime is high. In areas where crime is low, neighborhoods are stable and the people living in them feel a connection; a sense of belonging to the neighborhood. Where…

Centrist Democrats are ultimately losing candidates because they seek consensus and compromise with Republicans. Unlike the centrists, conservatives are in the game to win and will seek nothing less than an all out victory. This approach has, over the last 30 years, pushed the Overton Window of the Democratic Party precipitously to the right. Compromise…

Ever since the colonial days of the United States, there has always been the prevalent attitude that the condition of poverty is a result of an innate character flaw or inferiority of the person. This is partly a direct result of the importation of the English view of poverty and the prominent English thinkers that…