Like most Americans, these last few days I have been moved as never before by the courage and calm of the Japanese people amid such horrific conditions, as one of the most sophisticated and complex urbanized cultures on the planet in a split second is nearly paralyzed...
Several conservative House and Senate Members, dissatisfied both with the spending cuts enacted so far and with repeated short-term appropriations negotiations, are threatening to oppose another Continuing Resolution. I think that’s a mistake...
Now that the photo-ops and blather surrounding the birthday of “Let’s Move” are behind us, will the president and his wife get the message that there are better ways to use regulatory policy and their bully pulpit to improve public health...?
Today, in advance of this week’s International Summit on the Teaching Profession, Fordham is releasing a little paper by Janie Scull and me, American Achievement in International Perspective...
...Japan’s economic losses from the recent natural disaster amount to about 45% of February’s budget deficit, and 6.3% of the current year’s projected deficit...
Destruction is bad for the economy and yes, even bad most of the time, maybe all of the time, for measured GDP. The remarks by Larry Summers (and by Krugman in the aftermath of 9/11) imply otherwise...
I’m not a huge fan of Director of National Intelligence James Clapper...Still, Clapper merits defending against the latest criticism of his job performance...
by Kori Schakevia Shadow Government (Foreign Policy)
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Little noticed amidst the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) support for a U.N. no-fly zone in Libya on March 13th was another endorsement for the use of military force: deployment of GCC military and police forces to Bahrain...
...Judge Karen LeCraft Henderson opened today’s arguments by announcing that almost none of the case could be discussed in open session and that she would thus allow counsel to make only brief presentations in public session...
In fulfillment of my promise last week to provide analysis of the various pieces of new Senate legislation, here are some thoughts on the new version of Senator Lindsey Graham’s habeas reform bill...
