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Making college tuition free: Senior fellow Morley Winograd leads national campaign

  • Publication date May 27, 2014
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"It's time to make tuition at our public colleges and universities free and it can be done without increasing the national debt," writes senior fellow Morley Winograd. To make this dream a reality, he founded the nonprofit Redeeming America's Promise (RAP), a national campaign and inter-generational alliance dedicated to making college accessible to all Americans. The RAP website recounts how the organization began: "RAP evolved from discussions that started in in 2013 among a group of former elected officials and policy experts, who wanted to make one more contribution to America's future in their retirement years. As we were coming……Continue Reading Making college tuition free: Senior fellow Morley Winograd leads national campaign

Geneva Overholser: An Early Read on Baquet as New York Times Leader

  • Publication date May 27, 2014
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This guest post was written by senior fellow Geneva Overholser. Read her personal blog at GenevaOverholser.com. In the swirl of the Jill Abramson firing, a couple of things being said about the new executive editor, Dean Baquet, didn't sync with my impression of him. I looked back at this video of a forum I hosted at USC Annenberg with Baquet when he had just become managing editor of The New York Times, and saw why. What I had found most worrisome was Glenn Greenwald's charge that Baquet has "a really disturbing history of practicing this form of journalism that……Continue Reading Geneva Overholser: An Early Read on Baquet as New York Times Leader

Informal diplomacy can bring results, Cowan explains at Central European University in Budapest

  • Publication date May 23, 2014
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CCLP director Geoffrey Cowan gave a talk at Central European University in Budapest on May 21 to discuss the famous "shirt-sleeves" summit at Sunnylands between US President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping, highlighting the diplomatic power of such informal meetings. Photo by CEU/Daniel Vegel. "Although the meeting between Obama and Jinping was not official, they did come to an important environmental agreement to phase out harmful hydrofluorocarbons (greenhouse gases)," reports CEU. "There's something about the importance of this kind of informal meeting and maybe we don't do enough of it," said Cowan. "It's the 'gift of time' -……Continue Reading Informal diplomacy can bring results, Cowan explains at Central European University in Budapest

West Antarctic ice collapse ‘could drown Middle East and Asia crops’

The Guardian quotes senior fellow Dan Glickman in an article on climate change. ""Agriculture is a huge world-wide industry that requires stable weather, 'or else', and we might just be entering the 'or else' period," Dan Glickman, agriculture secretary under Bill Clinton and a co-chairman of the conference, told The Guardian."……Continue Reading West Antarctic ice collapse ‘could drown Middle East and Asia crops’

Geneva Overholser on Abramson and Sulzberger: The Two Who Couldn’t Tango

  • Publication date May 18, 2014
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This guest post was written by senior fellow Geneva Overholser. Follow the discussion on her personal blog. The reasons for Jill Abramson's firing as editor of The New York Times are no doubt many and complex. But one thing is clear: the editor-publisher relationship failed, spectacularly. This classic journalistic partnership, when it works, is like a good marriage. Full of successes and challenges, warmth and tension, it requires constant open communication and full-hearted dedication on the part of both parties. Also loyalty. A good editor ensures that the publisher is never blindsided. A good publisher ensures sufficient editorial independence to do good……Continue Reading Geneva Overholser on Abramson and Sulzberger: The Two Who Couldn’t Tango