Tag Archives: Civic Ethos
Improving Millennials’ Civic Health — and the Country’s
Originally published at Huffington Post Millennials (born 1982-2003) are America’s most civic-oriented generation, since their GI Generation great grandparents. They believe in collective, local, direct action to solve their community’s and the nation’s problems. However, a recent report on the state of Millennials’ civic participation indicates that the generation’s interest in taking part in political activities …
Obama’s Electoral Coalition Is Now His Policy Coalition
Originally published at NationalJournal As demonstrated in the presidential exit polls and rehashed in countless articles and blogs since the election, Barack Obama’s decisive reelection victory over Mitt Romney was a triumph for a still-emerging, majority Democratic Obama coalition, which we said in a pair of preelection Next America articles would define a new civic ethos, or consensus on …
Tax Revolt Is Ending Where It All Began
As published at NDN.org California’s demographic trends provide a first glimpse of what all of America will look like in the future, including the country’s new attitude toward finding the revenue to pay for a more activist government. The passage of several ballot propositions last November, coupled with the increases in income tax rates just …
Women, Minorities, and Millennials Will Determine America’s Next Civic Ethos
Originally published at NationalJournal On one level, the 2012 presidential election is a battle between two distinct party coalitions: a Republican coalition heavily centered on males, people over 50—especially seniors—and whites; and a Democratic coalition built around women, younger voters—especially Millennials—and minorities. But it is also a dispute over policy and program, because the party …
Understand the “Me” Versus “We” Approach to Work to Prosper in the Era Ahead
Originally published at BeInkandescent Since at least the time of Socrates, older generations have criticized younger ones for not being as smart, hardworking, polite, selfless, or strong as they themselves were when they were young. For that reason, it’s hardly surprising that a cottage industry has arisen devoted to attacking the nation’s youngest generation, Millennials …
Welcome a Different Kind of Entrepreneur
Originally published at BeInkandescent In the last half of the 19th century, Horatio Alger, Jr. defined for the American popular culture what it meant to be a young entrepreneur. Indeed, the writer of popular novels for children showed us through the heroes in his books that poor boys, by dint of hard work and better …
Will the Supreme Court Treat ObamaCare Dreadfully or Give US a New Deal?
On Monday, the Supreme Court will begin an unusual three-day session, hearing oral arguments on a case of clear political, philosophical, and constitutional significance—the 2010 Affordable Care Act (“ObamaCare”). Every 80 years the Court has decisively entered a sharply divided political process to provide its own answer to the fundamental question of American politics: what …
USC Road To The White House: Politics, Media and The Presidential Primaries
Morley Winograd (one half of Mike & Morley) moderated a March 7, 2012 panel for the USC Annenberg Center for Communication and Policy’s “Road To The White House Series”. He was joined by Los Angeles Bureau Chief and former Chief National Political Correspondent for the New York Times Adam Nagourney; senior fellow at CCLP and veteran political reporter Cinny Kennard, the …
Let’s Level the Inter-Generational Economic Playing Field
With President Obama’s speech in Osawatomie, Kansas channeling Teddy Roosevelt and decrying the growing economic inequality and lack of upward mobility in America, the issue has finally arrived at the center of this year’s campaign debates. While most discussions of this growing inequality focus on the gap between America’s poorest and richest citizens, a recent report by …
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