Lawrence Summers Leaving White House After Elections
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If more guns meant less crime, then we should be the safest people in the world. In truth, more guns mean more gun violence. While I cheer the news that violent crime rates in America have gone down, most of us know that there are many factors that contribute to crime rates. And most importantly, I know the all-too-sobering truth: America has the highest number of guns in the industrialized world and our citizens make up 80 percent of people in the industrialized world who die from bullet blasts.
Here's what we do know: For middle-class Americans in search of economic relief, Summers' departure is hardly what you'd call a setback. Now, the President has the opportunity to set a new economic course for his Administration.
This administration had always billed itself as driven by facts and not the talking-head news cycle. And when it came to the science and the Gulf, they should have been a little more circumspect.
The FCC chairman has to recognize the firm hand he holds in having two commissioners supporting him and recognize as well that if political forces want to reverse his decision, so be it. That shouldn't stop him from doing what's best for the American people.
Promoters of dirty air have been vilifying the Clean Air Act since it was just a notion in a congressional subcommittee, four decades ago. They carry on with the same fear-mongering today, peddling the same old falsehoods.
Changing weather patterns will inject an element of chaos into the already-fragile existences of the world's poorest people. The Millennium Development Goals are as good a framework as we have to craft a path forward.
Our nation was originally founded on the aspirations of higher achievement. The dream that each generation would attain more than the last. Now striving to be the best is in fact the worst of attributes.
Today is World Alzheimer's Day, an important day all across the globe, as this epidemic continues to steal minds, take lives, and gain momentum. And it is also an important day for me personally, as a child of Alzheimer's.
The claim that Sarah Palin is the front-runner for the 2012 GOP nomination is wildly premature. It's worth underscoring just how bad Palin's poll numbers are.
It's the same thing we've heard every time we've tried -- it's a bad time. These politicians have mid-terms elections in November; they need to keep up bigoted appearances so they can be re-elected. We have only one option for real change: Lady Gaga. Seriously.
Most people don't even realize it, but one of the most dangerous terrorists in US custody has been quietly appearing in a U.S. federal court in downtown Manhattan for pretrial hearings for weeks now.
On Monday at a "town hall" sponsored by CNBC in Washington, the president took questions about the economy. His answers were good as far as they went -- but, unfortunately, they didn't go far enough.
In the course of the next fortnight we are going to find out if the world is ready to follow through on a promise to turn the tide against this AIDS or whether it will stumble.
There is plenty of research to prove that extending benefits to foster kids during the first difficult years in college, or as they enter the work force, will save California considerable money down the line.
A narrow court ruling on health care reform's individual mandate will have minimal effect. So, once again, in their zeal to obstruct, the Republicans have struck out and America will be stronger because of their failure.
It bodes ill that two big issues -- energy and immigration -- which are key to the future of the U.S. economy and our prospects for significant job creation will not be addressed at all in what remains of this Session.
Mr. President, you are the most powerful man in the world. All I ask from you is to bring me home. All I ever wanted was an education so I could become an engineer. Please don't keep me exiled any longer.
With the exception of social networking features that I intentionally left out to avoid a second privacy firestorm, and hoping to create a far more productive tool than what eventually emerged, I actually created The Facebook.
A powerful new cyber weapon that was detailed at a security conference on Tuesday could hijack industrial facilities such as nuclear power plants and trigger their destruction.
More than a few people feel there are heroes in their lives who go unsung. So for anyone who has answered the call to service -- any service -- and to anyone who helps make answering that call possible, this song is for you.
While the Tea Party is voicing authentic anger, the money fueling it is coming from petroleum magnates who simply want to profit and pollute at the expense of the rest of us. The Tea Party in California has become Big Oil's army. Not very populist to me.
Frances Lasker Brody decided early on that she was too tall and not conventionally pretty enough to be a shrinking violet, "so she decided to speak her mind."
Adult respondents to a Pew study reported spending 57 minutes each day absorbing news through traditional media (newspapers and television). Online news consumption is up, now at 70 minutes a day.
I was in London last week when news came of the death of the great NBC newsman Edwin Newman. He was that rare thing, a gentleman, although "genteelly rumpled and genially grumpy."
We know from our own experience as presidents that progress on women's health and rights does not happen without political leaders who are willing to take risks. We call on all leaders to take such a risk now.
Feed the US economy cheap oil, and you'll see robust growth rates and a drop in the jobless rate to four-decade lows -- no matter who's in the White House. But throw in $147-per-barrel oil, and the US economy stops dead in its tracks.
