A Newly Elected Representative Quickly Discovers That

Everyone Cares For Disabled People, Right? What They Don't Care For Are Genuine Civil Rights For Disabled People. Mary Johnson Tells The Tortuous, Enraging Story Of How Congress Enacted A Law That Instead Of Protecting Against Discrimination Has Turned 'the Disabled' Into A Political Punching Bag.

Americans Cannot Teach Democracy To The World Until They Restore Their Own.

Creating A Positive Future Begins In Human Conversation. The Simplest And Most Powerful Investment Any Member Of A Community Or An Organisation Can Make Is To Begin With Other People As Though The Answers Mattered.

Democracy Is Held Captive, Not Just By Money, But By Ideas - The Ideas That Money Buys.

The Trauma Of 9/11 Stimulated Infinite Possibilities For Worry - Some Quite Plausible, But Most Inspired By Remote What-if Fantasies. A Society Bingeing On Fear Makes Itself Vulnerable To Far More Profound Forms Of Destruction Than Terror Attacks. The "terrorism War", Like A Nostalgic Echo Of The Cold War, Is Using These Popular Fears To Advance A Different Agenda - The Re-engineering Of American Life Through Permanent Mobilization.