Cover Story Sidebar | Even today, with "charitable choice" still in its infancy, many
charities that grew out of religious commitment have become
dependent on money they receive from government grants and
contracts. Interviews with charity leaders in Massachusetts suggest
three ways in which government funding tends to remake providers in
its own bureaucratic image: (1) Government funding causes
organizational mission creep. This was the phrase used to describe
the shift in the objectives of U.S. Marines in
Cover Story | On the second anniversary of federal welfare reform, many say that the most effective poverty-fighting organizations are faith-based. Some in Washington actually want to help, but critics worry that the help comes with unacceptable strings attached.
Forget money laundering. Now it's just laundering. New York Times
columnist Maureen Dowd, on the unsavory media stories about
President Clinton, Monica…
Losing witnesses? Fighting and burning of Albanian villages in
Kosovo continued, despite pleas for peace talks from Western
leaders. The depopulation of large…
Stop whining I have been involved in so-called Christian politics
since 1956 ("Cracking the whip," July 18). Briefly, lessons
learned: Form a county-wide…
