The last time I saw Abbottabad, I was in a crowd of a couple of hundred men watching a dancing bear hopping up and down and then wrestling in the dust with the owner's son. The crowd enjoyed it and stayed for the end, the collecting of coins. There was not a lot of entertainment around there; people looked and stopped at anything out of the ordinary. So, like all people, the folks there gossiped about most anything they noticed–say, a million-dollar compound with 18-foot walls and opaque windows three times the size of anything else in what we would……Continue Reading Pakistan and America: The Bad Marriage
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The Best of Times, the Worst of Times
As far as news is concerned, these are the best of times, these are the worst of times. It hurts your head to open a newspaper like The New York Times or The Wall Street Journal or flip through your favorite websites. Television, I admit, is giving us a bit of a break because all those folks care about is the royal wedding. But it seems to me there are only two stories (or questions) that are worth as much time as we have to think about them: 1. What, post-Cold War, is the United States' role in the world?……Continue Reading The Best of Times, the Worst of Times
CCLP Researchers Share Projects with Annenberg Students, Faculty
From technology's impact on public diplomacy to the role of biography in constructing presidential legacy, the USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy's (CCLP) diverse range of research projects and policy initiatives on display at the April 13th Policy Research Roundtable. Convened by CCLP Director Geoffrey Cowan and hosted by CCLP Research Director Mark Latonero (pictured left), the lunchtime event served as an opportunity for the Center to spotlight its key areas of engagement. "We believe that we have an obligation to produce research that makes a difference," Cowan explained to the standing-room only crowd, which included CCLP Fellows……Continue Reading CCLP Researchers Share Projects with Annenberg Students, Faculty
Reeves in NYT – Kennedys mini-series – 3
"Presidents are magic," said Senior Fellow Richard Reeves. "They walk into a room, and the air changes, and this one, in our lifetimes, above all." Reeves was quoted in article in the New York Times on the upcoming mini-series entitled The Kennedys that will debut on the Reelz Channel on April 3…….Continue Reading Reeves in NYT – Kennedys mini-series – 3
Reeves in NYT – Kennedys mini-series – 2
Presidential biographer and CCLP Senior Fellow Richard Reeves was cited in an article on the New York Times on the upcoming mini-series on the Reelz Channel, The Kennedys. Though the piece is presented as representing true happenings within the White House, Reeves contests some of the events depicted are completely false…….Continue Reading Reeves in NYT – Kennedys mini-series – 2
How America Doubled Its Brainpower
This is your basic "bait and switch" column. I am going to begin by talking about the fanciful story that strong and talented women, beginning with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice and National Security staffer Samantha Power, have taken over the government and pushed the president of the United States, NATO, the United Nations and the Arab League into trying to overthrow the Libyan gorilla Gadhafi. That titan of tubby masculinity, Rush Limbaugh, has said this is because the president, his generals and all male advisers are "the new castrati … sissies!" Therefore, the women of……Continue Reading How America Doubled Its Brainpower
Reeves in HuffPo – NPR
"The news we need to keep our freedoms," wrote Senior Fellow Richard Reeves is now a phrase being used to describe the work of NPR. Currently, the publicly funded broadcast entity is facing a decision by the Congress which may remove congressional support for its member stations around the country. Bill Moyers and Michael Winship cited Reeves in an article exploring this defunding on the Huffington Post…….Continue Reading Reeves in HuffPo – NPR
Reeves in Free Press – Reagan
An article on The Free Press cites the work of Senior Fellow Richard Reeves on the presidency of Ronald Reagan…….Continue Reading Reeves in Free Press – Reagan
There Are No Easy Choices in Libya
LOS ANGELES — Adam Zyglis, the editorial cartoonist of The Buffalo News, did a portrait of President Obama sitting on an oil drum in the classic chin-on-hand pose of Auguste Rodin's "The Thinker." Behind him, war raged in the Middle East and "Freedom" was under a tank and rubble. Zyglis' caption was "The Overthinker." Well, although Obama may be a touch too thoughtful to be a president in the decisive mold of a Harry Truman, he does have a lot to think about. I count at least 11 options in Libya, all of them risky…….Continue Reading There Are No Easy Choices in Libya
Reeves in VOA – Reagan
Continuing with his collaboration with the Ronald Reagan Centennial Academic Symposium, Senior Fellow Richard Reeves is cited in an article on Voice of America on Reagan's legacy that still permeates modern politics…….Continue Reading Reeves in VOA – Reagan