Steven Waldman, the co-founder of Beliefnet.com and a contributing editor of the , was named yesterday to an extremely interesting new post in the Obama administration. He'll be a senior advisor to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski and in charge of "an ...
The next generation of online education could be great for studentsand catastrophic for universities. What happened when a billionaire pizza mogul tried to build an elite Catholic law school. Vast numbers of students enter community college remedial ...
...it's about time that due credit was given. Based on sheer column inches alone, Steve should be in the top five, at least. Seriously, the guy is a machine. Does he even get a bathroom break? Influencial? Sound like Glastris is sucking up to Sonia ...
it's not hard to understand the concern. Paul, why not tell us specificallyl what you find legitimate in this concern? Otherwise, it's hard not to read this curiously vague and unsupported phrase as something other than a particularly weak ...
With Obama having already chosen his economic and national security teams, speculation is now turning to who he'll tap for jobs like Education Secretary. For that particular position, clear battlelines have been drawn between what House education ...
I can't overstate my respect and admiration for Kevin. He consistently writes one of the smartest, most influential blogs in the political universe. But I can't remember a time when he was nasty, sloppy, or injudicious. And that's no small achievement. ...
On these occasions, we typically throw a going away party for the departing staffer. That hasn't been possible in Kevin's case, since we're in DC and he's in OC. So instead we're having a kind of cyber going away party today, with posts from fellow ...
It's pretty clear, from news like this, that John McCain intends to pocket many of the constitutionally dubious powers that George Bush and Dick Cheney claimed for the executive branch. But what about Barack Obama? If he's elected president, will he A] ...
A lot of journalists get lured into the profession by the excitement—the chance to cover wars, natural disasters, political campaigns, or the lives of powerful people. I'm not immune to such inducements and have done a bit of all of the above. But ...
The current protests surrounding the Olympic torch are probably just a prelude to much bigger controversies that will ensue as the actual games approach. And to the extent that all these protests put pressure on China to improve its human rights ...
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