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Support for Women's Rights from the State Department

John Boonstra at 12/2/2008 12:32PM

Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards offers a reason to be happy about President-elect Obama's nomination of Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State:The selection of Senator Clinton represen

Susan Rice on the Poverty-Conflict Nexus

Mark Leon Goldberg at 12/1/2008 1:01PM

Long before Susan Rice was Obama's pick for UN Ambassador, she contributed this piece to UN Dispatch. Originally published May 31, 2007.

Space Based Solar Power

Mark Leon Goldberg at 11/25/2008 11:20AM

This is a super cool video. I particularly like how it is framed as a "message to the next president of the United States." From GoGreenTube.

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Develop a Smarter Approach to Immigration

Posted by kenneth.bledsoe at 3/3/2008 5:07PM

As I watch debates on illegal immigration, I can't help but notice that nobody has considered the real problem. We get so focused on why people want to come to our country that we forget about why people leave their own. On Day One, the new President should develop an approach to Latin America that focuses on improving democracy, governance and wealth distribution in those countries, because we should know that most people would rather not leave their homeland if they didn't need to.

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