Here is my view on CEA Chairman Austan Goolsbee’s recent White House white board presentation on the U.S. employment situation. This is my first video.
“They’re living a lie,” said Mike McConnell, then director of National Intelligence, to president-elect Barack Obama about Pakistan and its intelligence services. This was in November 2008, two days after the presidential election.
Somebody eventually had to say it — and German chancellor Angela Merkel deserves credit for being the one who had the courage to say it out loud. Multiculturalism has "utterly failed."
No longer is education reform an issue of liberals vs. conservatives. In Washington, the Obama administration's Race to the Top program rewarded states for making significant policy changes such as supporting charter schools.
This Obama administration’s caution about using presidential power unilaterally will likely change after the expected surge in republican congressional numbers following the midterm elections. Glenn Thrush
Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khameni, goes to Qom today. That doesn’t sound like a front page story, but this could be a hugely important milestone in Iran’s struggle to unwind the extremism of the 1979 revolution.
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