The future of the Supreme Court is at stake in the 2016 election. During the next four years the new President will likely nominate four new justices. A review of the last ten years of Supreme Court decisions indicates that the values of these Justices will guide the nation for the next generation.
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On April 23rd, 1997, David Morris delivered a speech at the Rochester Institute for Technology titled "A Global Village and a Globe of Villages." He argues, "we make the rules and the rules make us." New rules can reshape our world in a way more sympathetic to our sense of community and fairness. Listen to the audio.
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- Learning from Finland. In the 1980s the international ranking of Finland’s educational system was similar to that of the United States: mediocre. Both U.S. and Finnish governments responded by revamping their school systems in diametrically opposite ways. Finland came out far ahead. @Pasi_Sahlberg
- Privatizing prisons increases recidivism. Private prisons now house about 8.4 percent of U.S. prisoners. In 2014, New Mexico and Montana contracted with private prison companies to incarcerate 44 percent and 39 percent of the states’ prisoners, respectively. @PubInterest
- Wage theft and income inequality. After World War II workers’ wages rose in lockstep with increases in worker productivity, resulting in broadly shared prosperity and relative income equality. After 1975 the relationship diverged. @EconomicPolicy
- The shameful story of health insurance cooperatives. After the public option was abandoned, the America Care Act embraced the idea of health insurance cooperatives. Ultimately Obamacare financed 23 health coops. As of July 2016, 13 had failed. Here's the dispiriting and infuriating story behind those failures. @SNLFinancial
- Other people's money. After Woodrow Wilson's election in 1912, Louis Brandeis (who was responsible for much of Wilson's New Freedom program) wrote a series of articles for Harper's Weekly. In 1914, the articles were published under the title Other People's Money--and How the Bankers Use It. Melvin Urofsky
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