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...those of us who follow the news and try to report it, these kinds of circumstances are dispiriting. Political assassination is almost routine. Sometimes I feel it is carried out without any real strategy: either out of spite or to enforce the creeping authoritarianism of the status quo, to remind society of where things stand. The assassins and the powers behind them are on automatic; the ordinary citizen has now learned not to be surprised. Saddened, yes. Shocked...
...immune." Still, the Mountain View, Calif., search giant is on everyone's mind. "If I am wrong and Google misses, it will magnify a weakening market," says Jason Avilio, analyst at Kaufman Brothers. "If it does better it will help the market, but I would expect the status quo...
...website, ACORN has called the allegations of voter fraud "bogus" and "unfounded." The organization says it works with authorities and identifies all the fraudulent forms that it can, and that the campaign against its registration drives is a ploy to "disparage our work and help maintain the status quo of an unbalanced electorate...
...assistant principals, and will require all students to take Latin and music rather than offer a wide array of electives. These drawbacks have naysayers forecasting the school’s eventual failure, but given the current state of American education, this innovative model at least critically rethinks the status quo in our nation’s education policy. For years, American students have consistently underperformed on standardized measures of science, math, and reading compared to other developed nations, despite the fact that per pupil funding for education in America is among the highest in the world. Clearly, something...
Luckily, there is an easy way to improve upon the status quo: Congress should vote to make Election Day—that is, the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November—a federal holiday. This is no new idea: Election Day is already a holiday in states such as Delaware, Hawaii, Kentucky, Maryland, Montana, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, and West Virginia. The idea has even been contemplated on the federal level, too. In 2005, Michigan Representative John Conyers proposed the establishment of “Democracy Day,” a holiday that would fuse Election...