The new College Affordability Act vastly expands federal student aid while failing to acknowledge or alleviate the undeniable link between increasing student aid and rising tuition costs.
Read the articleWhile millions of people gathered in Beijing to watch the opening ceremony of the Olympics, protestors met outside of Chinese embassies in Washington D.C., London, Madrid, Paris, Stockholm, Rome, Berlin, Lausanne, and Ottawa to call attention to China’s gross violations of basic human rights.
Read the articleThe policy of deterrence needs to be eliminated as the guiding interest in American defense policy, argues Dr. Keith B. Payne.
Read the articleAt the left-wing blog, ConWebWatch, dedicated to “monitoring” conservative news websites, Terry Krepel has doggedly been criticizing Accuracy in Media.
Read the articleFacing an energy crisis at home and punitive new regulations abroad, some of the largest airline companies are banding together to face the problems caused by these trends.
Read the articlePastor John Hagee, founder of the pro-Israel lobbying group, Christians United For Israel, expressed his own concern about the obstacles facing pro-Israel students on campus at this year’s CUFI summit.
Read the articleThe facts of the failed Doha negotiations reveal a more impotent China than Americans would expect.
Read the articleAre Freudian analyses of the human mind becoming a thing of the past? A new study released this month finds that psychiatric practices are increasingly opting for medical therapies over the traditional “couch talks” that once symbolized this mental health profession.
Read the articleA small, unknown congressional bill, currently committee-stalled in both houses of Congress, illustrates the difficulty in passing any legislation, even if it is supported by both sides of the aisle. Case in point—the Affordable Footwear Act of 2007 (AFA).
Read the articleThere may actually be a part of the Pentagon’s budget that advocates of a strong defense want to cut. Naturally, it has precious little to do with taking up arms to defend America and a lot to do with feathering the already plush nests of universities.
Read the articleNow that major gains have been made to bring stability to Iraq, it would be foolish for the United States to simply leave the country arbitrarily, military strategists say.
Read the articleEducation and health: two seemingly separate domains, but according Robert Kaestner, professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, the two are closely intertwined.
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