With President Obama’s budget proposal for fiscal year (FY) 2010 moving forward, academics are lining up to suggest areas in higher education which could get more funding.
Monthly Archives For March 2009
Free At Last?
Harvard University’s 2008 Theodore H. White Lecture on Press and Politics was not about the press, and it was only about politics generally. It was about race.
Mexico’s Other Export
Mexico has a major export that never gets discussed in free-trade agreements.
Carrots, Sticks and Iran
President Barack Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and United Nations ambassador Susan Rice have implied that direct talks with Iran are a priority.
China Policy: Bipartisan & Bipolar
Q. How does a Republican president get a college professor to show him some love?
A. He appeases Communist China
Iran Watch
As Iran continues to pursue nuclear capabilities and its aggression toward the West shows no sign of slacking, many expect the Obama administration to intensify its diplomacy with Iran in the coming months.
DC Vouchers at Crossroads
Funding for the Washington Scholarship Fund (WSF), more commonly referred to as the DC voucher program, is likely to run out at the end of next academic year due to a sunset provision designed by Illinois Senator Dick Durbin (D).
Divide on D.C. Vouchers
One devastating impact on children in the $410 billion Omnibus legislation being debated in the Senate is the removal of a successful school voucher program in the District of Columbia.
U.S. Policy in Africa
At an Africa Action event in collaboration with Howard University African Studies Department, U.S. policy in Africa under the Obama Administration was discussed.
The Anything Goes Brigade
Politically active groups on and off campus are set to lobby a sympathetic newly-minted President of the United States to lift the ban that prevents open homosexuals from serving in the U. S. military.