The Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem (NDS) opened its doors in 1990, hoping to demonstrate the benefits of a community-based, team-…
I strongly doubt that President Obama has a secret agenda to increase American oil consumption, but anyone who looks at his highway-heavy…
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The 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill posed near-term economic risks to the Gulf of Mexico region and raised questions about appropriate…
Ten years into the war on terror, the U.S. has largely succeeded in its attempts to destabilize Al Qaeda and eliminate its leaders. But the…
Last Thursday, the president urged Congress to pony up roughly $200 billion in taxpayer money to "provide more jobs for teachers [and] more…
The big story of the GOP presidential race these days is how Gov. Rick Perry has suddenly burst into the sky as a new star. Whether he will…
We need not a one-year but a 10-year commitment to rebuilding the country. President Obama’s jobs speech focused where it needed to—but it…
In response to our sputtering economy, President Barack Obama presented a new stimulus package last week, hopefully titled the American…
America's last 10 years might be called “The Decade the Locusts Ate." A nation that started with a credible claim to lead a second American…