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The media bashing is starting to get unnerving. Apparently it’s not just conservative mudslingers like Michelle Malkin: Yesterday the Los Angeles Times reported that though the public antagonism hasn’t yet attained Vietnam-era levels, “‘treasonous’ and ‘traitor’ are words aimed at the news media with increasing frequency these days.” Each time newspaper correspondents file I-was-there pieces […]

By late afternoon on September 11, 2001, U.S. politicians appeared to have closed ranks around the Bush administration, professing their unqualified support of the president in the wake of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. However, some Democratic lawmakers weren’t entirely singing with the chorus of nonpartisan solidarity that the lawmakers’ […]

House and Senate leaders are now deadlocked between a Republican House stimulus bill that is a shameless tax giveaway to large corporations and a Senate Democratic spending bill that is well intended but too paltry. The country is facing a serious recession as well as increased national security needs. The safety net is frayed. Joblessness […]

The Times Higher Education Supplement The latest rage in education on both sides of the Atlantic is standardized tests. Tests have been around for a long time, of course, but have never been employed to the extent they are now. Young people are now being tested and then retested a year or two later, and […]

The Los Angeles Times Almost everyone agrees that the economy needs a kick. Anxieties about terrorism, job losses and record household debt are causing consumers to pull in their belts. Businesses have all but stopped spending. So why is the federal government’s much-heralded “stimulus plan” getting nowhere? Blame politics. Senate Democrats and House Republicans are […]

Let’s call George Bush the ostrich president. When confronted with hard facts that contradict his position, he squawks and plunges his head deep into the sand, leaving Ari Fleischer to stutter out some sorry explanation. The Bush Administration is having a major ostrich moment. Yesterday the National Academy of Sciences released a report — requested […]

Asia | Europe and Russia | Middle East and Africa | Australia | The Americas The World Responds Column Archive Asia Afghan Uncertainty On the day after opposition forces took over cities in Northern Afghanistan, the Afghan on-line news agency Afgha.com ran an article entitled “Why the Taliban Collapsed So Quickly,” by Anthony H. Cordesman […]

Sidebar to “A Believable Politics” by Paul Starr As young progressives at the Century Institute draft their statement of principles, young conservatives are preparing to battle for theirs. Except the conservatives’ counterpart to the Century Institute — the Leadership Institute — is teaching strategy, not issues. And it has the budget to train a much […]

We are 29 young women and men, brought together by a commitment to social justice and the fight for equality among all human beings. We are college students from across the United States and believe that the most important issues of our time are not being adequately addressed. We are involved in local and national […]

The New York Times The economic fallout from terrorism is hitting some Americans much harder than others, and we need to respond. Last year, when the slowdown began, layoffs and pay cuts hit hardest at manufacturing workers, white-collar managers and professionals. But since the terrorist attacks, consumers have cut their spending, and now a different […]