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”For Netanyahu, extending for several more rounds this hysterical walking-up-to-the-edge-of-war was going to be difficult,” said Daniel Levy, director of the Middle East and North Africa program at the European Council on Foreign Relations in London.

And his book is regarded by some media watchers as an effort by Mr. Ailes to get out in front of another book about Fox by Gabriel Sherman of New York magazine (tentatively titled “The Loudest Voice in the Room: Fox News and the Making of America”) due ...

In his State of the Union address, President Obama proposed to expand access to preschool, but offered few details on how much money the federal government would contribute. When the White House eventually releases that figure, everyone will want to know how it stacks up against what the federal government already spends on education each year. The trouble is, that number is tough to pin down. You might try to look it up.

... to replicate high-quality preschool programs, because we haven't yet tried to pay preschool teachers the same that we're paying our K-12 teachers,” said Lisa Guernsey, director of early education at the New America Foundation, a nonprofit and ...

“President Obama has even managed to take a step backwards from his first term,” Rosa Brooks, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation and a professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, said in a column in Foreign Policy. “For defense ...

The planned march on Islamabad “reflects the military’s desire for regime change” and “signals that military interest in political engineering is alive and well,” said Shamila N. Chaudhary, an analyst at the Eurasia Group who formerly served as the director for Afghanistan and Pakistan on President Obama’s National Security Council.

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Since the job market does not favor college dropouts the way it does graduates, said Kevin Carey, director of education policy at the New America Foundation, “it's not just enough to let people in, or even to let them in and make sure they can afford ...

ALEPPO, SYRIA — Kneeling on a rooftop, a woman jams a stick down a long pipe. With no electricity, residents now use diesel fuel for heat, which clogs the chimneys with soot. Nearby, on Bab al-Nayrab street, goats rummage through a quarter-mile of garbage. Its putrid stench extends even farther.

As fighting in Syria’s largest city enters its sixth month, the economy has ground to a halt. There is no electricity, and the prices of basic goods such as bread and cooking oil have skyrocketed. Residents are selling off their possessions to survive.