From Newsweek, Gangland USA: An interactive map of America's most dangerous gangs. Teenage Wasteland: A night in a police cruiser in a typical American college town reveals the cumulative effects of suburban boredom. From New Politics, Betty Reid Mandell on Homeless Shelters: A Feeble Response to Homelessness. An ounce of prevention: A social program that works, but where's the funding? Barry Schwartz on Bonus Babies: The more society embraces the idea that nobody will do anything right unless it pays, the more true it will become that nobody does anything right unless it pays. Jonathan Chait on how entitlement hysteria has gripped the capital. From National Civic Review, Michael Hamill Remaley and Patty Dineen on constructing a modern democracy one forum at a time; and is everything up to date in Kansas City? Matt Leighninger on why "citizen involvement" may soon be obsolete. A push for plain English: Gobbledygook—it's the stuff of government, maybe its No. 1 export.
