The American Federation of Teachers, which together with the National Educational Association organizes and speaks for the vast majority of public school teachers, is determined to confront the accusation of mediocrity. Modeled on the training of doctors, lawyers, architects and engineers, a propose

Rethinking the U.S. relationship with Latin America

Governments must reject the misguided trend of prison privatization.

God inflames the human heart with a deep desire for unity.

The Obama administration must urge Israel to halt settler expansion and guide it back to the negotiating table.

According to the Syrian novelist Dima Wannous, the seed of Syria’s Arab Spring revolt was planted in Damascus in February 2011. A policeman insulted a shop owner, and a crowd of young workers and traders formed chanting, “The Syrian people cannot be humiliated.” The interior minist