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...Race to the End Is there not a fourth option for the end of the battle for the Democratic nomination [May 5]? If Barack Obama wins the majority of pledged delegates and the Democratic National Committee decides to hand the nomination to Hillary Clinton, he could declare himself an independent candidate. That would guarantee a loss for Clinton but could result in the building of an all-inclusive New Democratic Party. J. Gerard Janssen, TORONTO...
...said Caleb L. Weatherl ’10, president of the Harvard Republican Club. “I must admit that I’ve been a little bit disappointed with the open list controversy, with the mockery and in some cases rudeness with which this opt-out option has been...
...third option argues that China's entry into a global climate regime is an important part of America's fair trade agenda. The U.S. will give China breathing room, for a few years if necessary, but eventually it has to join - and there will be trade sanctions if it doesn't. That's where Obama stands, and it's where McCain was going this week until he ducked. The official text of his Portland speech contained a reference to a "cost equalization mechanism" - the trade-sanctions stick if China balks - but McCain edited it out before show time, replacing...
...nuclear incentives - even though cap-and-trade is a built-in incentive for all low-carbon energy, including nuclear.) And in his big Portland speech, he ducked one of the central issues of the entire climate debate: how to get China on board. There are really only three options for this. First, the U.S. commits to emission reductions and figures out China later. That's the Kyoto option, and it was dead on arrival a decade ago. Second, there's the China trapdoor: America refuses to have a carbon cap unless China does too. That's a non-starter...
...developing world. “The only way to be modern is to be Western. The West invented modernity.” Zakaria—one of Foreign Policy magazine’s Top 100 Public Intellectuals—said that since America no longer has the option it had in the early 20th century of waiting for threats to develop and then responding, a better foreign policy strategy today would be to act as an “honest broker” and “try to have better relations with every country than they have with themselves...