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The Midterms: A Climate Legislation Graveyard?

Danny Wilson - November 1, 2010

With the midterms less than 50 hours from now, it’s fascinating to note how the environmental furor of the summer, especially in the aftermath...

U.S. Japan Relations: A Friendship Grown Cold

Alastair Su - October 31, 2010

Just this week, the White House announced that during President Obama’s visit to Japan for APEC, he would not be stopping by Hiroshima and...

Barack Obama: "Campaigner-in-Chief"

Thomas Gaudett - October 31, 2010

Election Day 2010 is only a few days away and Democrats are feeling the heat. All around the nation, Democrats are reaching out to...

Cold Turkey?

Joshua Lipson - October 31, 2010

By the conventional wisdom of the day, Turkey is hot. While America is caricatured as ‘empire on the decline’, Europe as ‘the shrinking continent’,...

Education and American Exceptionalism

Rajiv Tarigopula - October 31, 2010

The crisis in American education has catapulted to the spotlight in recent years. Or so it seems. With the release of the critically acclaimed...

Why Somalia matters, America must end its post-Iraq stasis.

Tyler Cusick - October 30, 2010

The United States stands at a crossroads in its foreign policy. With the nightmares of Afghanistan and Iraq starting to fade as our troops...

Little Oversight in Afghanistan

Evan Kendall - October 29, 2010

War spending is out of control and a cause for worry. We get weekly reports of the costs of the war and the burden...

Weighing In: 63% Believe Climate Change is Happening

Jeffrey Kalmus - October 28, 2010

Last week, Danny Wilson, our environment columnist, posted a very thorough analysis of a very thorough Yale report about climate change. He notes that Only...

Lights, Camera, Argue: Why the Court needs to modernize

Caroline Cox - October 27, 2010

Part of the Supreme Court’s appeal, at least for me, has always been its sense of mystery. Nine robed justices sit on the high...

Obama’s Campaign Promises Come Back to Haunt Him: Harvard AIDS Protestors Interrupt Rally Speech at Hynes Convention Center

Thomas Gaudett - October 25, 2010

On Saturday October 2, President Barack Obama came to Boston’s Hynes Convention Center to rally the troops for the November 2 election in...