Yearly Archives: 1998

The Inverse Law of Electoral Politics

When I first started working for Greenpeace, in 1989, I used to attend a weekly strategy session on campaign finance reform, hosted by Common Cause. I was working on issues relating to toxic pollution at the time, but everyone working in the public interest realized that if we could just get big money out of […]

The Hard Luck Holiday

Happy New Year, the hard-luck holiday. It was ten years ago this week that I was riding around Washington, DC in a crowded car and asked my fellow travelers to share their favorite memories of past New Year celebrations. My request was followed by several minutes during which the only sound was the clatter of […]