With all the talk about "disparities" in innumerable contexts, there is one very important disparity that gets remarkably little attention — disparities in the ability to create wealth...
One of the ways of trying to reduce the vast disparities in economic success, which are common in countries around the world, is by making higher education more widely available, even for people without the money to pay for it...
With Huntsman out of the race, that left five participants front and center at Monday’s Fox News/Wall Street Journal debate in Myrtle Beach. Some thoughts...
The military commission for Abd al-Rahim Hussein Muhammed Abdu Al-Nashiri convenes again tomorrow for a motions hearing at Guantanamo Bay...The following is a preview of the ten issues the court will be hearing...
Regardless of other issues that divide today’s political spectrum, all policy leaders should be able to stand shoulder to shoulder when it comes to the need for adequate and sustainable funding for our courts. Our liberty depends on it...
by Kori Schakevia Shadow Government (Foreign Policy)
Friday, January 13, 2012
If the LA Times is accurate (and they have the best reporting on the middle east of any American newspaper), the [new National Intelligence Estimate of the war in Afghanistan] is going to be very damaging to the war effort...
Most societies have important economic and other objectives that markets and competition are not designed to achieve. In today’s rapidly globalizing world, the most important of these objectives...are stability, distributional equity, and sustainability...
Many economists anticipate that this year will be an improvement over 2011 -- but growth is expected to be slow. We talk with two leading analysts about the state of the nation's economy, and we'll get their predictions for the year ahead...
