Content tagged with “Election 2012”
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...
Tags: Election 2012 Listen to Lauren Bush, CEO and co-founder of FEED Projects, discuss how we can feed a world of nine billion people.
Tags: Election 2012, Lauren Bush The failure of Congress to pass a new Farm Bill is another example of the institutional and structural dysfunction currently affecting the Congress. The legislation has passed the full Senate many...
Tags: Election 2012, Farm Bill, Dan Glickman "[T]he lens in which the politicians of our country see everything is ideology, partisanship, and their own personal reelection."Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz speaks about companies balancing profit...
Tags: Election 2012, unemployment, economy, Business and Society A key issue of the 2012 Presidential Election is the government's efforts to reform health care. Earlier this year we partnered with Think WellPoint to look at issues relating to financial incentives...
Tags: Election 2012, Reinventing Health Care Watch Jim Steinberg, former deputy secretary of state, discuss the future of American foreign policy at the 2012 Aspen Ideas Festival.
Tags: Election 2012, Aspen Ideas Festival, Foreign Policy 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. Shortly after the shooting in Aurora...
Tags: Election 2012, Gun Control Listen Robert Putnam discuss American values and the growing class divide at the 2012 Aspen Ideas Festival.
Tags: Election 2012, Income Inequality 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. Chicago's current...
Tags: Election 2012, Education and Society Program, education reform, teacher evaluation 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...
Tags: Election 2012, Libya, 9/11, Foreign Policy 
