Germany's first chancellor, Otto von Bismarck, supposedly once said that there was "a special providence for drunkards, fools and the United States of America."
As someone who has made a lot of mistakes and who tries hard to admit them and apologize when I think apologies are in order, I have become somewhat of a student of the apology. I think it's important, if you apologize, to do so sincerely and actually to admit your mistake.
The death sentence could be swift and absolute: If Mayor Bill de Blasio gets his way, New York’s horse-drawn carriage industry, after more than 150 years of thriving existence, will cease to exist on May 31, 2016.
The Senate’s misleadingly dubbed “torture report,” an executive summary of which was released by the Senate Intelligence Committee, is a shameless and dangerous act of political grandstanding and moral preening.
Two Washington policy wonks propose an appeasement policy that would doom Ukraine and give Putin a huge victory over the West, while offering no tangible benefits. Their “win-win-win” policy is based on a fundamental lack of understanding of the Kremlin.
A new analysis of the performance of charter schools in Ohio found that they are lagging behind public schools. The 5 year study by Stanford University’s Center for Research on Education Outcomes measured growth by students in charter schools to growth by similar students in public schools.
Differences in teacher quality are commonly cited as a key determinant of the huge international student performance gaps. However, convincing evidence on this relationship is still lacking, in part because it is unclear how to measure teacher quality consistently across countries.
It’s sometimes said that cradle-to-grave doorstopper biographies are a thing of the past – that readers (and writers) now prefer something slighter, a life approached at an angle, or an account structured in a less traditional way.
