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Considering Bush’s decision-making style, and what many perceived as a reckless, ham-fisted approach to policy, it’s no wonder that the press is scrutinizing Obama’s style very closely. And already, people are cautiously sizing-up Obama’s poised, deliberate way of addressing questions and problems. Cambridge author Joan Hoff was recently interviewed by The Chronicle of Higher Education […]
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Robert S. Singh, Timothy J. Lynch
If you consider where we were only seven years ago, the notion that the world and President Bush’s record would be the victim not to terrorism but to bad mortgages would have seemed incredible. And yet, the political terrain today is not made by the war on terror as much as it is by a […]
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Trading a kidney for tickets to see Obama at the DNC. On Craigslist. Good deal? Trustworthy? I’m not sure, but at least they picked a very well rendered, accurate picture of a kidney, courtesy of *ahem* Cambridge University Press’ A.D.A.M. Atlas of Anatomy. Plus, it’s hilarious. Click to embiggen. Thanks to Laura for pointing this […]
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Susan Aaronson
Today’s Financial Times offers commentary by Susan Aaronson, a scholar who analyzes the murky relationships between trade and human rights. In it she poses the question: if both candidates are pro-trade, what else will they do with their policies? Around the world, the press has portrayed the 2008 US presidential election as a choice between […]
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Robert S. Singh, Timothy J. Lynch
In recent days Barack Obama has sought to establish bluer water between himself and John McCain over Iraq. Did he succeed? Yes, he has succeeded to a degree. He has made it clear that Afghanistan will be the first front in his revised war on terror. By wrapping up Iraq quickly – most US brigades, […]
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Should Barack Obama deliver a speech at Berlin’s iconic Branderburg Gate (that’s Brandenburger Tor auf deutsch)? Time Magazine identifies two moments in US Presidential history as iconic as the Gate itself. Let’s see if you can identify the speakers by the words alone: Ich bin ein Berliner! Tear down this Wall! Both worthy of exclamation […]
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Robert S. Singh, Timothy J. Lynch
What will be the Bush legacy in the next US presidency? According to policy experts Timothy Lynch and Robert Singh, the next president will be bound by history to follow a foreign policy very close to that of George W. Bush. Two possible reasons account for Barack Obama’s recent embrace of George H. W. Bush. […]
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President Bush is not the only president, or even the first one, to favor trade expansion over human rights protection. Susan Aaronson, expert in the intersection of trade and human rights, seeks to flesh out Bush’s views on how trade affects human rights, with a look at what this means for the current candidates. See […]
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Considering Bush’s decision-making style, and what many perceived as a reckless, ham-fisted approach to policy, it’s no wonder that the press is scrutinizing Obama’s style very closely. And already, people are cautiously sizing-up Obama’s poised, deliberate way of addressing questions and problems. Cambridge author Joan Hoff was recently interviewed by The Chronicle of Higher Education […]
Read More
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Robert S. Singh, Timothy J. Lynch
If you consider where we were only seven years ago, the notion that the world and President Bush’s record would be the victim not to terrorism but to bad mortgages would have seemed incredible. And yet, the political terrain today is not made by the war on terror as much as it is by a […]
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Trading a kidney for tickets to see Obama at the DNC. On Craigslist. Good deal? Trustworthy? I’m not sure, but at least they picked a very well rendered, accurate picture of a kidney, courtesy of *ahem* Cambridge University Press’ A.D.A.M. Atlas of Anatomy. Plus, it’s hilarious. Click to embiggen. Thanks to Laura for pointing this […]
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Susan Aaronson
Today’s Financial Times offers commentary by Susan Aaronson, a scholar who analyzes the murky relationships between trade and human rights. In it she poses the question: if both candidates are pro-trade, what else will they do with their policies? Around the world, the press has portrayed the 2008 US presidential election as a choice between […]
Read More
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Robert S. Singh, Timothy J. Lynch
In recent days Barack Obama has sought to establish bluer water between himself and John McCain over Iraq. Did he succeed? Yes, he has succeeded to a degree. He has made it clear that Afghanistan will be the first front in his revised war on terror. By wrapping up Iraq quickly – most US brigades, […]
Read More
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Should Barack Obama deliver a speech at Berlin’s iconic Branderburg Gate (that’s Brandenburger Tor auf deutsch)? Time Magazine identifies two moments in US Presidential history as iconic as the Gate itself. Let’s see if you can identify the speakers by the words alone: Ich bin ein Berliner! Tear down this Wall! Both worthy of exclamation […]
Read More
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Robert S. Singh, Timothy J. Lynch
What will be the Bush legacy in the next US presidency? According to policy experts Timothy Lynch and Robert Singh, the next president will be bound by history to follow a foreign policy very close to that of George W. Bush. Two possible reasons account for Barack Obama’s recent embrace of George H. W. Bush. […]
Read More
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President Bush is not the only president, or even the first one, to favor trade expansion over human rights protection. Susan Aaronson, expert in the intersection of trade and human rights, seeks to flesh out Bush’s views on how trade affects human rights, with a look at what this means for the current candidates. See […]
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