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Last week, President Barack Obama made good on a campaign promise by proposing to open new American waters to drilling for oil and natural gas. However, by promoting fossil-fuel usage and threatening these off-shore ocean ecosystems, he is failing to make good on protecting the environment...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Don’t Drill for the Bill | 4/7/2010 | See Source »

...quest to achieve meaningful social change in American cities, failures are inevitable—and even necessary—said Louisiana Lieutenant Governor Mitchell J. Landrieu and several other panelists at a discussion of social innovation at the Institute of Politics yesterday...

Author: By Stephanie B. Garlock, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: IOP Panel Calls For Risk In Social Programs | 4/7/2010 | See Source »

...interview before the NPR's release, Obama said that, in a change from the past, the U.S. would no longer threaten nuclear war in retaliation for a biological- or chemical-weapons attack. But look closely at the text, says Hans Kristensen of the Federation of American Scientists, which monitors nuclear weapons policies, and you'll see that's not quite true. For instance, the document states that there "remains a narrow range of contingencies in which U.S. nuclear weapons may still play a role in deterring a conventional, chemical or biological attack against the U.S. or its allies." Says Kristensen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama's Nuclear Strategy: What's Different | 4/7/2010 | See Source »

...going to see a lot of these Tea Partyers mobilizing in the fall," predicts Ned Ryun, president of American Majority, a group that trains Tea Party organizations in tactics ranging from fundraising and campaign planning to social networking and voter registration. "They're fired up. They're going to do the grunt work and be the get-out-the-vote people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can the Tea Party Movement Take the Next Step? | 4/7/2010 | See Source »

...amnesty law when he declared jurisdiction in the case is open to debate. "Numerous sources of international law suggest that amnesties for crimes against humanity are inconsistent with a State's obligations to protect human rights, including the right of access to justice," Carolyn Lamm, president of the American Bar Association, wrote in a public letter to Spain's Attorney General, an opponent of the prosecution. "It is difficult in light of these principles to view [Garzón's] ruling as legally indefensible, or as warranting criminal prosecution." Garzón's lawyer agrees. "The big question...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crusading Judge Faces His Own Trial in Spain | 4/7/2010 | See Source »

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