Not long after the 2008 election, Mike Petrilli and I penned an "open letter" to the new powers that be in Washington, suggesting an approach to ESEA/NCLB reauthorization that we termed "reform realism".
As President Obama's administration evolved and a midterm rebuke loomed, certain historical analogies came to the fore. Would he swing to the center, like Bill Clinton? Or would he hunker down truculently, like Jimmy Carter?
William Greider argues in an interesting essay in The Nation that President Obama’s political difficulties are tied to his failure to exercise the full powers of the presidency.
Two recent developments bring the problem of Somali pirates back into view. Last week, a federal court in Virginia began the first U.S. trial on piracy charges in over 100 years.
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