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Philip Howard, attorney and chair of Common Good, talked about what he considers to be the root causes of government failures and addressed how to turn things around. This event was held at …

Jerry Muller reported on the use of metrics in government, education, business, medicine, and more.

Philip Howard was joined by panelists to talk about his book, The Rule of Nobody: Saving America from Dead Laws and Broken Government, in which he argues that leadership in the U.S. has been…

Philip Howard talked from New York City about President Obama’s $250 million budget request for grants to help U.S. states modify their medical malpractice laws. Part of the grants could be …

The Senate Republican Conference held a hearing on tort reform. They talked about measures to lower the numbers of lawsuits brought, general reforms to the judicial system, and ensuring that…

Phillip Howard talked about his book Life Without Lawyers: Liberating Americans from Too Much Law (W.W. Norton and Co.; January 12, 2009). Howard uses the stories of real people to explain w…

As part of a White conference titled, “Securing Our Economic Future,” President Bush addressed the conferees briefly on tort reform and then stayed for the rest of the session. Moderated by …

Philip Howard talked by remote video link from the Reagan Center, where he is attending the White House Conference on the Economy, about making changes in the system of bringing lawsuits. He…

In one of eight break-out (concurrent) sessions at an economic forum sponsored by the White House, President Bush, health care professionals and others talked about health care policy and it…

Common Good founder and chair Philip Howard talked about his new organization and its desire to overhaul the American legal system and the “lawsuit culture.” He responded to audience telepho…