Those urging President George W. Bush to set a deadline for withdrawing American troops from Iraq labor under a dangerous illusion. Today's Iraq quitters have become the mirror image of the Bosnia and Rwanda isolationists of yesteryear: deadly civil war looms, the fate of millions hangs in the balance, ...
Iraq faces an incipient sectarian conflict that threatens to tear the country apart, but the debate here in America has been fraught with misunderstanding. In our rush to exit the war in Iraq, we could find ourselves entangled there for years to come.
No one doubts that President George W. Bush's proposed nuclear deal with India, inked on his recent trip to the subcontinent, marks a historic triumph for the world's largest democracy. Many American lawmakers, though, are wondering what's in it for us.
The New Deal is widely credited with saving American capitalism from its worst excesses by empowering labor unions, providing badly needed social insurance and granting vast regulatory powers to the federal government. Yet today, the system that protected American workers from the vagaries of the market ...
God forbid undergraduates start trying to revolutionize the way economists compile data in the pages of The Herald. But sadly, Ethan Dennison '07 sought to do precisely this on Wednesday. For the sake of the integrity of a Brown education, allow me to set things straight.
If Wal-Mart gives workers a bad deal, then why did 11,000 people recently apply to work at a new store in Oakland? That's a question that people who today pass for socially conscious have a hard time answering.
No matter how macabre things get in Baghdad, the sun never stops shining for President Bush. The war, we were told, would knock off a regime friendly to al-Qaida, unhand Saddam of weapons of mass destruction, liberate a people yearning for freedom, promote peace in Israel and begin a democratic domino ...
Slovak journalist Stefan Hrib recalls how the Soviet Union sought to depict President Reagan as "a servant of the military-industrial complex, a man who wanted war and scorned ordinary people." A lot of Democrats thought the same thing about him. But the people liberated from Soviet tyranny know better. ...
The war in Iraq, like the Vietnam War, faces American policymakers with the infuriating difficulty of engaging in asymmetric warfare against a shadowy enemy. Once again, U.S. forces that venture far from their bases meet ambushes and booby traps set up by a mysterious army whose fighters show little ...
Imagine you're a 35-year-old earning an average income, and someone is trying to sell you a federal insurance plan that promises you regular checks throughout your golden years. Call it Social Security.
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