America’s embattled labor movement hasn’t had much to celebrate lately, so it’s worth noting when a major union welcomes a business mega-merger. The Communications Workers…
This week, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced competitive grants to encourage states to increase their college graduation rates, with a goal to add eight…
The American Prospect‘s Paul Waldman has done us all a great favor by reading and interpreting the latest batch of “campaign books” from prospective 2012…
Though it would be fair to say Obama administration has struggled to keep pace with the groundswell of popular protest from Morocco to Yemen, the…
The Obama administration has tried to keep a low profile in the Libyan crisis. When the shooting starts, however, it’s hard for a superpower to…
Recent events in Libya have left conservative Obama-haters a bit confused. Up until this week, conservative gabbers frequently took easy shots at the president for…
Book Review: Going to Extremes, by Cass Sunstein Back in 2005, a trio of researchers conducted a little experiment on deliberative democracy. They assembled groups…
Like a governor issuing an 11th hour stay of execution to a death row inmate, the United Nations has intervened dramatically in the Libyan crisis….
Many parents can’t decide whether they love or hate the Tiger Mom. Either way, she has focused our collective attention on education in the United…
Qaddafi’s hired mercenaries are closing in on the rebel stronghold in Benghazi. If they overrun the city, two things will almost certainly happen: Any hope…