Walter Russell Mead: Heavy regulation plus bad governance hurts the poor and prevents jobs from being created in big blue cities where so many immigrants and minorities live. Those are exactly the people who most need the freedom to start businesses, and those are the businesses our existing blue model cities do so much to …
Walter Russell Mead: In California, encouraging news from Vallejo: As the Washington Post reports, four years after it declared bankruptcy, its finances are stable and considerably better than many of its neighbors, and new techniques provide better services at considerably lower cost. First the city disposed with massive salary and benefits guarantees (80 percent of the …
Walter Russell Mead on ending the poverty blues: Part of that social reconstruction will involve steps that have a direct effect on services for the poor. Right now our delivery systems for vital social services like health and education are grotesquely wasteful, primitive and inefficient. (Typically, our technology is good; our organizational structures, professional guild …