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With Margaret Thatcher’s death on Monday, her incredible legacy has been a hot topic in the international media for the better part of this week. And for good reason. Thatcher not only became the first female prime minister of the United Kingdom in 1979, she also went on to win re-election twice more in 1983 and 1987. The changes and reform that her conservative party...
Fourteenth in reading, 17th in science, 25th in math, and 17th overall. Those rankings composed America’s dismal placement in global education, according to a report published last fall by the education firm Pearson. Disappointingly, a nation that regards itself as the leader of the free world does not even rank in the top ten educational systems worldwide. As a political...
On Sept. 11, Muslims across the Middle East re- acted to a YouTube trailer for the anti-Islamic movie “In- nocence of Muslims,” pro- duced by Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, by burning the U.S. flag, shouting anti-American chants and storming U.S. em- bassies in Sudan, Germany and the United Kingdom. Rather than resorting to violence in response to the video, however,...
