June 2018 “Would you like some water?” I was a bit hesitant to approach her. She smiled and took the bottled water I’d bought at the gas station across the street. The sides of her face crinkled upward around the edges of her black sunglasses. I was surprised she smiled at all. Her black sleeveless tank top was stained with sweat. Her wrinkled, but pretty, flowered skirt flapped in the […]
Bob Findysz | The hag
sits on a bench across from the pharmacy—bent, wrapped in dark from toe to crown, a shriveled olive. Suddenly she lunges toward a turnstile set between outside the drugstore and in. Auto-piloting down one of the mall’s pathways, caught in cobwebs of thought, I realize we are heading for the same point about to collide. As I downshift to let her pass, she opens the barrier for a very pregnant […]
Power and Sex | Moving Towards Equality
War between the sexes? That’s such tired thinking. As if the only way to respect and value each other as equals is for someone to win and another to lose. Dr. Scilla Elworthy, who is our featured interview this month, is also the inspiration for this issue. Dr. Elworthy literally wrote the book Power and Sex back in 1996, to better understand the thinking of the world’s nuclear weapons decision-makers—who […]
Bruce J. Katz | Envisioning the new localism
City and county managers hold increasingly more responsibility for solving the problems facing localities across the country than many might realize. After decades of demographic, economic, and social change, the location and nature of power is shifting. Power is drifting downward from the nation-state to metropolitan areas; horizontally from governments to networks of public, private, and civic actors; and globally along circuits of capital, trade, and innovation. This power shift […]
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