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In effect, the staff has touted the noble values of liberal education—of rational deliberation, of open dialogue, of mutual respect—in defense of an administration that has undermined those values in its refusal to engage with students and workers—let alone enact a...
Given the cost of propping up Réunion's economy, a whopping $2.7 billion per year in benefit payments alone, why does France do it? "It's more sentimental than rational," says De la Grange. "Réunion was a desert island before the French settled it in the...
It hasn't been a great couple of months for Washington's environmental lobby. Bush's new budget was delivered Monday; it cuts roughly $500 million from the EPA's coffers. In addition, the new administration has advocated oil exploration in Alaska's National Wildlife Refuge, struck down newly enacted...
Political fixes are rarely accused of being rational, principled decisions. If anything, such compromises are chosen because they appeal to the widely held perceptions—the underlying social idea of what is right, if not to the reality of a given situation.
My pessimism isn't shared by Charles Ogletree, a Harvard law professor who has put together a Reparations Coordinating Committee to plot possible legal strategies. Or by Randall Robinson, head of the Washington-based lobbying group TransAfrica, which led the battle to impose the economic sanctions that helped topple white...