Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here,” is the placard that Herman Cain must have read last week when he descended into the Sexual Harassment Inferno, from which he has not yet emerged.
Things are looking better in Myanmar. With a shift to civilian rule, its new leader Thein Sein is implementing reforms and releasing political prisoners. Unfortunately for the Burmese people, these changes are likely to be transitory...By Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith
The International Atomic Energy Agency yesterday released a report on the status of Iran’s nuclear programs; it makes alarming reading. The report concludes there is credible basis for concluding that Iran has long had programs and continues to work toward an arsenal of nucle
In an interview with Reuters, General James Cartwright, who retired a few months ago as the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, maintains that the United States needs to di
In an interview with Reuters, General James Cartwright, who retired a few months ago as the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, maintains that the United St
The Arab upheavals of 2011 have inspired wildly inconsistent Western responses. How, for example, can one justify abiding the suppression of dissidents in Bahrain while celebrating dissidents in Egypt?
Did the federal law, No Child Left Behind (NCLB), close the education gap? Now that Congress is talking about reauthorizing NCLB, it struck me that it would be worthwhile to see what the latest results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) tell us about
State capitalism was touted by Lenin as a positive step on the road to socialism. By state capitalism, Lenin meant a “commanding heights” of large businesses and trusts controlled by a state that served the interests of the working class.
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