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Our southern border is being used a pawn for politics rather than progress. What is really infecting the border cities in America is rhetoric about "border violence."
The Obama administration and Congress have taken a first step. Now we need to do the right thing: repeal DOMA and assure gay and lesbian couples equal protection.
No wonder Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) -- dubbed the "master of the flip flop" -- is well known in immigration reform circles as someone who talks the talk without walking the walk.
Most reformers are focused on fixing the educational "system." But it's not the "system" that is most important to fix; it's the education that the system provides.
According to a Pew Research Center poll, 36 percent of Americans today say science conflicts with their own religious beliefs.
To rephrase President Obama's SOTU theme: "This is our generation's apparatchik moment." Yes, he said "Sputnik" instead, but his actual agenda is about the apparatchik -- government by party leaders, bureaucrats and the well-connected.
If BP ever wants consumers to think of the company as something other than that oil company that put profits before safety, they'll have to get in the clean energy driver's seat.
The convergence of more effective HIV testing efforts, the recession, rising drug prices and the fact that people with HIV are living longer thanks to treatment, have dramatically increased patient burden on ADAP.
To say, as the president did, that America is "the light to the world" is to say that the rest of the world is a bit dimmer. Not such a bright idea.
When taken month-to-month, January, 2011, was Obama's best month of his entire presidency. Not only did he finally get his bump -- but it was a truly significant bump.
In his second State of the Union address, President Barak Obama placed the need for excellent education and superb teachers at the center of his speech to Congress and the nation.
Some in the education field were cheered during the State of the Union speech by President Obama's call for people to go into teaching. Stirring call to service or patronizing pat on the head?
The main goal of the Presidential address was to show the country and the world that he had learned his lessons of the midterm elections at which t...
Like the BP disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, the extreme weather events occurring worldwide offer a teachable moment on the need to address climate cha...
Although education is certainly a factor in paving the road to economic recovery, college is not the right path for everyone.
So much for the argument that only climate change can justify investment in clean energy. The case for expanding these investments for economic competitiveness, national security, and public health reasons is stronger than ever before.
