The real secretary of education, the joke goes, is Bill Gates. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has been the biggest player by far in the school reform movement, spending about $200 million a year on grants to elementary and secondary education. ...more

November 1, 2009

WASHINGTON (AP) — The real secretary of education, the joke goes, is Bill Gates. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has been the biggest player by far in the school reform movement, spending around $200 million a year on grants to elementary and secondary education. ...more

October 26, 2009

A Russian partisan commander looks dismissively at the Bielski brothers, eyeing tough Zus (Liev Schreiber) and tougher Tuvia (Daniel Craig) and proclaiming, "Jews don't fight." ...more

January 16, 2009

It's a familiar pattern: When Republicans win dramatic victories, as they did in 1994 or 2004, we are told that the election results prove the country has "moved to the right." When Democrats win, however, we are told that the election revealed no ideological shift whatsoever or even that the public was somehow rejecting progressive ideology as it voted for progressive candidates. ...more

November 16, 2008

A missing 3-year-old girl's decomposing body was likely in the trunk of her arrested mother's car, the sheriff's office said Monday. ...more

September 2, 2008

It happened a lot during the past few months, some of the longest of his 26 years. He'd be in a store, or a restaurant, somewhere, and someone would recognize him. They remember his game and his smile. ...more

July 28, 2008

Yes, brothers and sisters, that probably was the pitter-patter of 27 charming-as-the-dickens electoral votes scampering across the grounds of the governor's mansion. ...more

July 8, 2008

In keeping with his "messiah" image, Barack Obama might have been more at home in Bethlehem, Pa., than in Unity, N.H., when he and his "former" nemesis, Hillary Clinton, opened their new act on the road to mixed reviews. ...more

July 2, 2008

On a night when microscopic lapel pins bearing John McCain's name winked from every lapel or spaghetti strap, Pasco's Republican faithful were jerked to their feet not by mention of their presumptive presidential nominee - the septuagenarian who claims, abundant evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, to be a foot soldier for Ronald Reagan - but instead by two able pols who, though scarcely having cracked puberty the second time the Gipper took the oath of office, actually march the march. ...more

June 3, 2008

Iran may be withholding information needed to establish whether it tried to make nuclear arms, the International Atomic Energy said Monday in an unusually strongly worded report. ...more

May 27, 2008