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You didn't hear those three words from Michele Bachmann after her history-revising Tea Party response to President Obama's State of the Union speech. What are those three words, you ask? "I was wrong."
As China bids farewell to the Year of the Tiger and rings in the Year of the Rabbit this month, many Americans are wondering: Is China eclipsing the U.S. and taking over as the world's new superpower?
At the end of the day, we must remain vigilant about protecting those less fortunate. Children are neither a political nor a partisan issue.
Obama's State of the Union appeased the American public by calling for a modern day, green energy moon shot, then undercut any hope for real change by reassuring powerful, polluting corporations.
Winning the future won't happen if we stay stuck in the economic orthodoxy of the past. We need a clean energy hiring plan.
Without action to address the underlying causes of the global food crisis, history is destined to repeat itself. The road to food security can be paved with the following steps.
Can't we expect some basic competence demonstrated by our legislative representatives after their election? Other professions do, in fact, require far greater accountability of competence.
Though the administration won't release its 2012 budget until Monday, it is certain that the cuts will be painful and that the neediest Americans will feel the worst of that pain.
What do you think you'd get if you put a team of high school students together for four months and gave them the opportunity to take risks and to unleash their scientific creativity to solve real world problems?
Corporate America is on our minds today, because President Obama just gave a speech to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. With the future decidedly uncert...
Why do some people embark on a news hunt the moment they open their eyelids in the morning, while others get the news only if it eventually gets them, when it dons the front page of virtually every media outlet available?
If single mothers do not receive the tools that they need to provide financially for their families, we certainly cannot expect their children to grow up and meet the demands of a globalized economy.
With the economy increasingly dependent on highly educated workers, education, now more than ever, is a crucial link between personal well-being and national strength.
Climate hawks and world leaders should stick to the truth, knowing it will pay dividends in street cred down the road as human-caused climate change is inexorably, irrefutably and tragically vindicated.
If we can't bring ourselves to make oil companies pay for the environmental risks and costs their products impose on us, the least we could do is to stop paying them for the privilege.
Beyond the epicenter of the economic crisis -- the US and Western Europe -- public spending has had an indeterminate effect on spurring GDP growth in developing countries.
