Adm. William McRaven, who oversaw the team of Navy SEALs that killed Osama Bin Laden, explains there's much more to the work of special operations forces than raids. Watch this clip for more on their work, which spans more than 70 countries across the globe:
Archives for blog topic “Election 2012”
Sep 24 2012
By Tarek Rizk
Listen to Lauren Bush, CEO and co-founder of FEED Projects, discuss how we can feed a world of nine billion people.
Sep 21 2012
By Dan Glickman
The failure of Congress to pass a new Farm Bill is another example of the institutional and structural dysfunction currently affecting the Congress.
Sep 20 2012
By Jeff Harris
"[T]he lens in which the politicians of our country see everything is
ideology, partisanship, and their own personal reelection."
Sep 18 2012
By Jeff Harris
A key issue of the 2012 Presidential Election is the government's efforts to reform health care.
Sep 17 2012
By Jeff Harris
In the wake of several high-profile incidents of gun violence around the country, the issue of gun control has been a hot topic in the 2012 Presidential election.
Sep 13 2012
By Jeff Harris and Tarek Rizk
The teachers strike in Chicago isn't an isolated incident in the ongoing education reform debate that often puts cities and those in the government at odds with teachers unions.
Sep 13 2012
By Clark Ervin
The tragic killing of our ambassador and other embassy personnel in Libya, and the storming of our embassy in Egypt, highlight at least three things of critical importance in post-9/11 American foreign policy.
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