Ventura County Star

While a few writers (Leonard Sax with “Boys Adrift,” Liza Mundy with “The Richer Sex,” Hanna Rosin with “The End of Men”) also clambered aboard the bandwagon, Sommers' thesis — that education inherently shortchanges males — isn't widely regarded as ...

In their 2010 book "California Crackup," scholars Mark Paul and Joe Mathews calculated that a member of the Assembly, working 40 hours a week for 30 weeks of the year, doing nothing except speaking individually to constituents for six minutes each ...

Some critics of the bill, including health care scholar Micah Weinberg of the New America Foundation, argue rate regulation will conflict with implementation of federal health care reform because it will impede the ability of California's new, ...

“The worst thing about California’s fix is that, under the state’s current system of government, these problems can’t be fixed,” write Joe Mathews and Mark Paul, both scholars at the New America Foundation, a nonpartisan think tank.

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Joe Mathews, a New America Foundation senior fellow who studies and writes about direct democracy around the globe, believes this has been a history-making week in the world of ballot propositions.

“Proposition 16,” he said Wednesday, “belongs in the Hall of Fame of all-time bad initiatives.”...

The dynamic, creative, roiling forces that have made us spectacularly wealthy have brought with them dislocation and distrust,” echoes Forbes Magazine's Reihan Salam. ...

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“I think this thing's dead,” said Joe Mathews, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation who has closely followed the movement. ...