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Student Visas Down But Not Out

The U. S. government is finding it easier to find visitors to the United States traveling fraudulently on student visas.

College Prep

A Primer in Education Waste

Although federal spending on education has more than quadrupled over the past 40 years, standardized test scores have stagnated or even declined, notes a Cato Institute scholar.

Book Reviews

Grading Teachers’ Unions

Linda Chavez examines the inner workings of America’s teachers’ unions, whose “ultimate goal,” in the candid words of a former NEA head, is “to tap the legal, political, and economic powers of the U.S. Congress … [to] collect votes to re-order the priorities of the United States of America.”

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Judges With Grudges

“When a judge goes beyond simply applying a law or constitution according to its original meaning,” says constitutional attorney Gene Schaerr, “and instead pours his own new meaning into it, he or she is engaged in an immoral act.”

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America The Regional

The problem with President Bush’s policy on immigration is that it benefits immigrants who see America not as a melting pot but as a crock of gold, according to a Republican U. S. congressman.

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Chomsky: Scholar or Sap?

When the scholars you look up to need to do some remedial thinking, you may need to look elsewhere for your mentors.

Book Reviews

Another Professor for Peace

In Resurrecting Empire, the director of Columbia University’s Middle East Institute weighs in on the situation in Iraq.