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...campaign's final stretch, Obama was much more muted on education; it was McCain who made the boldest case for reform. And Obama's decision to elevate campaign adviser Linda Darling-Hammond, a Stanford education professor whose positions are often aligned with those of the unions, to lead his education transition team worries the reform community. "The idea that Obama was wholeheartedly behind school reform might have been the triumph of hope over evidence," says Mike Petrilli of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute in Washington...
...earlier mistrial, five former leaders of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development were found guilty of funneling some $12 million to Hamas. A jury convicted the group on 108 criminal counts, including money-laundering--a resounding victory for the Bush Administration in the biggest terrorism-funding case since 9/11. The defendants maintained that Holy Land is a humanitarian organization, and say they will appeal the verdict...
...contemporary case of Darfur, American politicians didn’t hesitate to use the “g-word.” With the war on terror spreading throughout both Afghanistan and Iraq, anti-Arab sentiment was palpable at the time, and again, the United States had little to lose in labeling the actions of the Arab janjaweed as genocidal before the U.N. could. Yet, again, intervention and even effectual advocacy has been slow to come...
There is of course nothing wrong with the sober reverence paid to the victims of the Holocaust by the powers-that-be in the United States. The only problem is that that reverence is ultimately undermined by general inconsistency in response to other clear cases of genocide, all of which have wreaked unfathomable havoc upon communities not unlike our own. If American politicians are to continue to present this nation as the global defender of liberty and human rights, it must begin to do so in every case...
...both parties weather the global economic crisis. Some of these recommendations (like the U.S. pivoting on its Cuba policy) may not take, while others rehash what has become conventional wisdom (the war on drugs is a pricey, ill-conceived boondoggle). But on the whole, the authors make a strong case for why a deeper U.S.--Latin American partnership is too logical not to forge...