America Self-Contained? A Symposium
Japan’s Existential Angst

Japan is worried by America’s “strategic ambiguity” and uncertain about its own future.

America Self-Contained? A Symposium
A Second Act for U.S. Foreign Policy

Obama should be thinking of his place in history as he ponders what to do about Ukraine.

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America Self-Contained? A Symposium
Obama’s Pragmatic Internationalism

The President takes the long view, and his caution in the global arena is no mistake.

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America Self-Contained? A Symposium
The Reluctant Strongman

The Obama Administration’s foreign policy has been one long parade of errors.

The Syria Nightmare
Armenian Town Attacked by Syrian Rebels

During recent fighting near the Turkish border, the Syrian rebels attacked a town of Armenian Christians. Armenians worldwide are raising an outcry, reminded of the 1915 massacre of Armenians by the Turks.

Winter for Higher-Ed
GOP Targets Pell Grants

Paul Ryan’s proposed House budget includes a provision for freezing Pell Grants at their current levels for a decade. It doesn’t have a prayer of making it through Congress, but it could get a conversation going about the role of student aid in driving up college costs.

Department of Bad Ideas
Regulatory Roadblock For Online Ed

The Department of Education must be nostalgic for defunct regulations. If it reinstates the requirement that states authorize all online programs that enroll students within their borders, students will suffer.

Not Time Served
Students Seeking Skills, Not Degrees

In a rare sign of sanity in higher education, students are doing an end run on the ‘time served’ model of degree attainment at colleges, and instead are attending university in order to pick up only the skills they need.

A MOOC for the Manor Born
Elite Ed Goes Online

Harvard Business School launches its first online course. Will this new “serious” class threaten struggling, lower-tier schools?

Fixing the Schools
Brookings Report Throws Cold Water on Common Core Hopes

Brookings says that Common Core won’t do much to improve education. This isn’t a great start for the controversial program.

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