The media make it sound like November 7 could bring big changes. But historical evidence and our electoral system combine to suggest that all the hype about election day is misleading. James Skillen explains why very few congressional races are competitive and little will change after the voting is over.
Health-care policy expert, Clarke Cochran, says that the critical issues of uninsured citizens, the future of Medicare, and the rising cost of health care will not be at the top of voter concern this year. He urges readers to take seriously this crisis that is not receiving the attention it deserves in Washington.
The editor summarizes arguments presented at a September forum in Washington, D.C. hosted by the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI). Two authorities on military policy explain why America's future actions in Iraq or in any other place must be very different from the failing efforts currently running their course.
Donald Kruse, former American foreign service officer in the Middle East, urges America's foreign policy elite to return to U.N. Resolution 242 as the basis for seeking peace and a two-state solution for Palestine and Israel.
Last June, the Christian Reformed Church of North America adopted a well-rounded report, updating its pastoral thinking on war, peace, and just governance. Presented in this article are excerpts from the Prologue with information on how to obtain the 70-page report.
Number four in the series of Guidelines for Government and Citizenship published by the Center for Public Justice focuses on education policy. Center president, James Skillen, comments on the eight theses of this Guideline that articulate government's responsibility to do justice to the diverse families and schools responsible for education and to end the monopoly privileges of government-run schools.
A brief announcement of a new study by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies in Washington, D.C. with information about how to obtain its report on "Black Churches and the Faith-Based Initiative."
Editor Skillen enters an argument between Prof. Michael Sandel at Harvard and legal philosopher Thomas Nagel over the moral and legal basis for restricting or supporting abortion. There is something wrong on both sides of this argument, the editor says.
