German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck warned, "Woe to the statesman whose reasons for entering a war do not appear so plausible at its end as at its beginning..."
Nearly two decades after his greatest political triumph and 16 years after he succumbed to cancer at the age of 40, the ghost of Lee Atwater looms over the Republican presidential field...
Former Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo called upon Latin American leaders yesterday to make the social investments needed to meet the challenges of poverty and inequality and secure a future of sustainable democratic development...
Powerful California labor interests, backed by a key Democratic operative, have declared war on Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's ambitious health care proposal, a strategy that could pose problems for Hillary Rodham Clinton, who has made a similar plan a major component of her presidential campaign...
Tomorrow at 2:00 PM (EST), the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology is holding a hearing on the Yukos affair with my colleague Tim Osbourne, Anders Åslund and others...
Montana State University's College of Agriculture invites you to visit campus and celebrate agriculture in Montana during Ag Appreciation Weekend on Nov. 2-3 in Bozeman...
While the Republicans are arguing about the meaning of their party and their philosophy, one of the clearest-thinking journals in America, Commentary magazine, is signaling that its own transition will be true on matters of principle...
Chester E. Finn Jr. and Frederick M. Hess (aka Checker and Rick) keep saying that NCLB, as as its currently constructed, won't result in better schools...
Passed by Congress in late 2001 and signed by President George W. Bush one year after his inauguration, the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) is the most ambitious federal education statute ever...
Wondering why education's great academic minds -- Ravitch, Fuller, Hoxby, Hanushek, Murnane, whomever -- aren't in the fray advising the major presidential contenders like their counterparts in other fields?
