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Obama Still Faces Plenty of Risks on Syria
September 13, 2013 The sudden swerve toward international diplomacy offers President Obama the opportunity of a better outcome in Syria—at the risk of creating an enervating standoff that weakens him in all the other struggles barreling his way this fall. When Obama agreed this week to pursue the unexpected Russian initiative to place ...
Americans Staunchly Opposed to Military Intervention in Syria
September 10, 2013 President Obama continues to face broad public opposition to military intervention in Syria and an overwhelming consensus that he should not launch attacks if Congress denies him authorization, the latest United Technologies/National Journal Congressional Connection Poll has found. As the president prepares to make his case in a nationally televised ...
Why Isolationism Is Back in America
September 6, 2013 For nearly a decade, from Bill Clinton’s first-term moves into Haiti and Bosnia through George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq in 2003, the current of American foreign policy moved steadily toward greater tolerance of military intervention abroad. The division, ambivalence, and hesitation in both parties about intervening in Syria culminate ...
How the FCC Could Revolutionize Education and Put Computers in More Students' Hands
July 19, 2013
FROM NEXTGOV
Few, if any, of the confrontations captivating Washington this summer will affect daily life in America more than a subdued regulatory process that will begin Friday in an office building far from the capital's downtown power centers. On Friday, the Federal Communications Commission will start restructuring the "E-rate" under which ...
As America Celebrates Its Creation, Our Common Ground Is Disappearing
July 5, 2013 It seems entirely revealing, if dispiriting, that the days before the July Fourth holiday showed Red America and Blue America pulling apart at an accelerating rate. Of all of our national holidays, Independence Day is the one most intimately rooted in our common history and shared experience. Yet this year ...
How USAID Is Making a Bigger Difference With Less Money
June 21, 2013 Not long ago, the industrialized world interacted with developing nations mostly through the decisions of heads of state like President Obama and others who gathered for the G-8 meeting of major economies in Northern Ireland this week. The choices those leaders make about foreign aid still have huge ramifications for ...
Analysis: How the White House Scandals Could Hurt Republicans, Too
May 16, 2013 candals large and small are a remarkably common, if unwelcome, house guest for second-term presidents. But President Obama may not prove to be the only one hurt by the eruption of controversies around the Benghazi attack, the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of conservative groups, and the Justice Department’s seizure of ...
How Washington Ruined Governors
April 12, 2013 Even for longtime advocates on both sides of the emotional gun-control debate, the events of March 8 were enough to induce whiplash. On that day, South Dakota became the first state to explicitly authorize school employees to carry guns, when Republican Gov. Dennis Daugaard signed legislation sent to him by ...
The Internet is reshaping government and citizens
June 8, 2012
FROM NEXTGOV
More information, more options, and more control over their personal choices as consumers. Most Americans believe that the rise of the Internet and the spread of social media has delivered all of those tangible benefits, according to a new Allstate/National Journal Heartland Monitor Poll exploring public attitudes toward the cascading ...
Public favors gays in military, not weddings
May 22, 2012 Exactly half of Americans support the House-passed legislation to bar same-sex weddings on military facilities, but only a small minority would back further federal action to restrict gay rights, according to the latest United Technologies/National Journal Congressional Connection Poll. By 50 percent to 40 percent, those surveyed endorsed the prohibition ...
