Elizabeth Warren—Harvard Law School professor, former Obama consumer-protection czar, and now a candidate for Senate in Massachusetts—recently gave a revealing presentation of her views on justice and taxing the rich:
When President Obama's polls hit 40 percent approval, he fumed at "billionaires and millionaires," "fat cat bankers" and "corporate jet owners." In his sloppy targeting, Obama doesn't care much that a billionaire has 1,000 times more than a millio
Consumers are often confused by seemingly conflicting advice from “experts.” Some recommend low-carb, high-fat diets; others, low-fat Mediterranean ones. Some tout the benefits of hormone replacement therapy for menopausal symptoms, while others emphasize the risks.
Follower’s of Fordham’s work know that for the better part of three years, we’ve been pushing an approach to federal education policy that we call “Reform Realism“–a pro
For all of the concern among some Beltway Republicans about his Texas tough talk alienating moderate voters, it is perhaps ironic that Republican presidential nomination front-runner Rick Perry raised the most eyebrows at one of the first GOP debates when he warned against mil
If one looks at the recent Associated Press list of the ten U.S. cities with the highest unemployment rates, eight of them are in California, one Arizona, and one Florida.
Pakistani politicians are outraged at Admiral Mullen’s assertion that their country’s intelligence service and military are complicit in attacks the Haqqani have undertaken in Afghanistan. Yesterday Pakistan’s political and military leaders gathered at Prime Minister Gil
Western diplomats and journalists fell for Stalin’s show trials but eventually learned not to accept developments in the Soviet Union at face value. In the Soviet Union’s later years, a crowd assaulting a foreign embassy would have been assumed to have state approval.
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