No one appears to agree on fundamental ideas about governing anymore, and we’re not even sure what we’re arguing about. In “The Fix: How Nations Survive and Thrive in a World in Decline,” Tepperman sets aside Big Think to serve up a smorgasbord of small think: practical, microcosmic solutions to big problems in sometimes surprising ­places from Brazil to Botswana to New York City. Then he travels to 10 places around the world to highlight successful local or national solutions to these problems. His response was to “work around the federal government and do something no modern American city had ever attempted: try to defend itself, by itself,” Tepperman writes. could claim three years later, Tepperman writes.

Source: New York Times September 29, 2016 03:56 UTC