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March 4, 2011

Elections and Voting
Campaign 2012: Hello Newt Gingrich, GOP Presidential Candidate?

Newt Gingrich addresses the 38th annual Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington. (Larry Downing/courtesy Reuters) Someone had to go first. So Newt Gingrich did. While the other major …

Newt Gingrich addresses the 38th annual CPAC meeting in Washington

April 5, 2011

Politics and Government
Is Operation Odyssey Dawn Constitutional? Part V

  Most Americans think of the Supreme Court as the legal equivalent of a baseball umpire. In their view, the Court’s job is to call legal balls and strikes, and thereby tell us what the law is. So…

Justices

May 4, 2011

TWE Mailbag: Walter Cronkite, the Tet Offensive, and Kent State

Walter Cronkite on television during a presidential debate on September 23, 1976. (Thomas J. O'Halloran/courtesy the Library of Congress) Always underpromise and overdeliver. Never overpromise and u…

Walter Cronkite on television during a presidential debate on September 23, 1976.

April 12, 2012

Trade
Morning Brief: College May Not be Everyone’s Best Investment

The rising rate of college attendance is often touted as a great success story, but the 40 percent college dropout rate may support the argument that college is not for everyone (BusinessWeek). The a…

Graduating student Abel Charrow advertises to potential employers at the University of Southern California’s May 2007 commencement. (Mario Anzuoni/Courtesy Reuters)

July 12, 2012

Trade
Morning Brief: Californian Cities Confront Cash Crunches

On Tuesday, San Bernardino’s city council voted to become the third Californian city to file for bankruptcy in the last month (LAT). While Stockton, Mammoth Lakes and San Bernardino each faced unique…

James Penman, city attorney general of San Bernardino who has called into question the validity of the city’s last sixteen annual budgets, spoke at the city council chambers yesterday (Alex Gallardo/Courtesy Reuters).