Hillary Clinton will announce tomorrow that she is suspending her presidential campaign. We asked seven leading political writers and policy thinkers to tell us one key way Clinton affected the 2008 Election, and progressive politics, over the course of the primary. Here's what they had to say:

In an interesting piece in Britain's The Guardian, Timothy Garton Ash asks a provocative question: "[C]an we, in Europe, have social justice in higher education and world-class research universities? Or must we choose?"

As Ash explains, globalization has hit the British university system, and universities have become "as much a global market as that for computers, oil, or financial services." Oxford, Cambridge and the like are competing with American universities for students and faculty, but this puts them at a disadvantage, given the "lower salaries, higher house prices and heavier teaching burdens" that academics in the British university system typically face.