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…ways thought this was a bad way to waste a good hamburger, but I had one of those moments the other night when watching news reports on debt ceiling discussions. Media outlets have referred to President Reagan’s scolding of Congressional Republicans for delaying debt ceiling inc...

…al is likely dead in its current form. While negative for Japan, the expected withdrawal of the US from TPP could spur new arrangements with regional partners. One potential positive is the prospect of improved economic and trade linkages with other key players in the region, in...

…on was not merely contemptuous of Ryan’s ideology; he had no respect, either, for his craft. In Bannon’s view, what the new Republican majority needed was a man like John McCormick, the Democratic Speaker of the House who had served during Bannon’s teenage years and had shepherde...

…re is that the federal executive Crime Victims are Criticized, Irish Times (Nov. 16, 2015), hitp:-/Avww.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/new-laws-on-rights-of -crime- victims-are-criticised-1.2431095. By contrast, seeSinger v. United States, 380 U.S. 24, 34-37 (1965) (holding t...

… Almost all the professionals who were now set to join him were coming face to face with the fact that it appeared he knew nothing. There was simply no subject, other than perhaps building construction, that he had substantially mastered. Everything with him was off the cuff. Wh...

…ed Bardakoglu with another well-known scholar, Mehmet Gormez, who has an avowedly more conservative take on Islam. The new Diyanet chief’s first act was to fire Ayse Sucu, who headed the organization’s women’s branch. Sucu’s initiatives had included suggesting that women should...

…ost students’ school year when I took a job with Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) as the Chief Education Officer of its new West Coast campus, located in Silicon Valley. There HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023840

…ews to write for its website. More recently, Chinese publishing entrepreneur Zhou Zhixing has established the US-China New Perspectives Foundation, with offices in both Los Angeles and Washington, DC. As of yet, these offices have no track record of activities or publications. I...

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… power that want to expand. However, I really believe that in this current environment, where you're facing a potential new caliphate that is very aggressive that is really a situation — I’m not saying we can put it on a back burner — but I think we have to deal with first things...

…he country’s political landscape: “I am the leader of the national-populist movement.” One cause of Bannon’s boast and new resolve was that Trump, for no reason that Bannon could quite divine, had embraced Mitch McConnell’s establishment candidate in the recent Republican run-of...

…th throughout the entire Cold War would have been overkill. In fact, Operation Sandstone -- a series of three tests at Enewetak Atoll in 1948 -- was not intended to warn off the Soviets as tensions rose over Berlin. Nor was the series of 48 underground tests launched in the summe...

…he Obama administration has talked about trans- Pacific and trans-Atlantic accords. Yet it has failed to close even one new free- trade agreement. Ron Kirk, the president's trade representative, said in 2009 that the administration did not have "deal fever." In fact, it has been...

…us schools shouted abuse at Rabin when he rose to speak. As the Knesset vote on Oslo II approached, the hatred reached new levels. The day before, thousands of protesters packed into Jerusalem’s Zion Square. Some shouted “Death to Rabin!” Others burned pictures of him, or passed...

…s’ overall fitness and intelligence. It is precisely at the point of creating greater societal intelligence where fake news, propaganda, and advertising all get in the way. Fortunately, trust networks give us a path forward to building a society more resistant to echo-chamber pr...