In announcing recently that the Fairness Doctrine would soon be removed from the books, the FCC took one small step into the information age. Unfortunately there is still plenty of media regulation that is stuck in the industrial age and in serious need of rethinking...
The lesson here is clear. In dealing with storms, it is critical to know both the macro and the micro environments...In some instances, the relevant judgments are made at the time of crisis. In other cases, they should be made at the time of purchase of land...
...32 percent of U.S. public and private-school students in the class of 2011 are deemed proficient in mathematics, placing the United States 32nd among the 65 nations that participated in the latest international tests administered by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)...
Obama cannot propose a real jobs program. His constituents would rebel. A real jobs program attacks too many of the core beliefs of his party, such as minimum wages and higher taxes on the better off...
The gloves are off. What vestiges remained of bipartisanship on education in Washington has been buried. And education may yet turn into a major issue in the 2012 presidential race...
There is a breezy article in The New Republic by Walter Shapiro about why Rick Perry terrifies liberals such as himself...It is written (rather well) in a sort of self-parodying liberal style. But at one point even the caricature breaks down...
A few days ago in The New Republic, Judge Richard Posner, my former colleague and one of the smartest and least partisan men I know, wrote an thought-provoking essay...Like anything Posner writes, it deserves careful attention...
If you step back from day to day vitriol that characterizes the current education-policy “debate,” and glimpse the larger picture, two worldviews on education reform emerge...
[The 2012] race is not simply a “yes” or “no” vote on Obama. It will take a Republican with broad appeal to win. Perhaps Rick Perry is a Republican who can win...
