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June 26, 2012

Education
Foreign Languages and U.S. Economic Competitiveness

Americans are lousy at learning foreign languages. We all know the historical reasons – the United States was long a big, largely monolingual country with a fairly self-sufficient economy. U.S. econo…

Teacher Kennis Wong points to Chinese characters on a board at Broadway Elementary School in Los Angeles, California (Lucy Nicholson/Courtesy Reuters).
Blog Post by Edward Alden Renewing America

June 29, 2012

United States
You Might Have Missed: Drones, Targeted Killings, and Nuclear Weapons

Government Accountability Office, State and DOD Face Challenges in Finalizing Support and Security Capabilities, June 28, 2012. The Departments of State (State) and Defense (DOD) planned for a civil…

CIA
Blog Post by Micah Zenko Politics, Power, and Preventive Action

September 6, 2012

Polls and Public Opinion
History Lessons: The America First Committee Forms

   

Blog Post by James M. Lindsay The Water's Edge

October 8, 2012

Education
Policy Initiative Spotlight: Some HOPE for College Tuition

Having yet to take a finance or economics course, most high-school juniors and seniors could be forgiven for an ignorance of the principle of “return-on-investment” (ROI). However, the concept could …

The University of Georgia in Athens (Courtney McGough / Reuters).
Blog Post by Jonathan Masters Renewing America

March 13, 2013

The Renewing America Interview: Robert Reischauer on Fiscal Reform

This week, for the first time in more than ninety years, both houses of Congress put out their annual budget proposals before the White House, an anomaly that reflects the topsy-turvy world of fiscal…

A view of the House of Representatives Building and the East Portico of the U.S. Capitol (Ron Cogswell/Courtesy Flickr).
Blog Post by Jonathan Masters Renewing America