India Overhauls Monetary Policy With Inflation Target
MUMBAI — India’s central bank and the finance ministry have agreed, in the biggest change to monetary policy since opening up its economy more than two decades ago, to introduce…
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Netanyahu’s Visit Bringing Uninvited Problems for Jewish Democrats
WASHINGTON — Speaker John A. Boehner’s unilateral invitation to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel to address Congress on Tuesday has turned a foreign policy issue that has had near…
Top Conservatives Are Totally Confused By Marijuana Politics
When pressed at an annual conference for conservative activists this week about their stances on marijuana legalization, several members of the Republican Party said that although they personally oppose legalizing…
Gary Johnson: Rand Paul’s no libertarian
READ: Conservatives party like it’s 2016 – Paul has even sidled away from his libertarian foreign policy views, shying away from his isolationist views in favor of a more nuanced…
Ted Cruz Voices Support For States’ Right To Legalize Marijuana
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) voiced support for the right of states to pursue their own marijuana policies on Thursday, speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Maryland….
Ted Cruz Makes A Crude Bill Clinton Joke And Some Important Policy News
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) gave a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Thursday filled with so many red-meat applause lines that it will likely…
Obama: ‘They Can Have That Vote,’ But I Won’t Back Down On Immigration
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama said Wednesday that Republicans can go after his immigration programs in the courts and in Congress, but his confidence will not be shaken. “In the…
Supreme Court to hear religious freedom case
READ: Ginsburg and Scalia on parasailing, elephants and not being ‘100% sober’ Like many retailers Abercrombie has a “look policy” aimed to promote what it calls its “classic East Coast…
As Republicans Concede, F.C.C. Is Expected to Enforce Net Neutrality
WASHINGTON — Last April, a dozen New York-based Internet companies gathered in the Flatiron Building boardroom of the social media website Tumblr to hear dire warnings that broadband providers were…
Sanctions Put Academic Freedoms to a Test on a Campus Far From Tehran
AMHERST, Mass. — Word of the new policy spread through Facebook, text messages and emails, leaving consternation and fury in its wake. The state’s flagship campus had announced this month…
Sanctions Put Academic Freedoms to a Test on a Campus Far From Tehran
AMHERST, Mass. — Word of the new policy spread through Facebook, text messages and emails, leaving consternation and fury in its wake. The state’s flagship campus had announced this month…
New Bush advisers key to old Bush ‘mistake’
During a question-and-answer session following his speech to the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Bush said, “There were mistakes made in Iraq, for sure,” under President George W. Bush’s watch….
Jeb Bush Tries to Distance Himself From Brother in Foreign Affairs Speech
Former Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida talked about Iran and Benjamin Netanyahu’s scheduled speech to Congress and said his foreign policy positions were his own, not his family’s. CHICAGO —…
Jeb Bush’s foreign policy strategy: ‘I am my own man’
“I love my father and my brother. I admire their service to the nation and the difficult decisions they had to make,” Bush said Wednesday in Chicago during the first…
‘I Am My Own Man,’ Jeb Bush Tells Foreign Policy Group
Former Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida talked about Iran and Benjamin Netanyahu’s scheduled speech to Congress and said his foreign policy positions were his own, not his family’s. CHICAGO —…
Jeb Bush’s Foreign Policy Plan: More Military Spending Will ‘Encourage Peace’
WASHINGTON — Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush will lay out a vision of American foreign policy on Wednesday aimed at pushing his nascent 2016 presidential campaign out of the shadow…
Obama Immigration Policy Halted by Federal Judge in Texas
A federal judge in Texas has ordered a halt, at least temporarily, to President Obama’s executive actions on immigration, siding with Texas and 25 other states that filed a lawsuit…
UMass Amherst Tells Iranian Students They Need Not Apply To Certain Programs
The University of Massachusetts-Amherst deleted a policy statement Friday that warned students from Iran not to apply if they plan to major in certain fields, citing U.S. sanctions against their…
Yale Boots SAE Fraternity For Sexual Misconduct During Initation
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — Yale University has banned a fraternity from campus for two years over a violation of the school’s sexual misconduct policy. – A spokesman for the…
Is Scott Walker qualified to be president?
Of course, Republicans have made bad choices before. A recent Des Moines Register survey found Walker to be the first pick of 15% of the GOP faithful likely to attend…
Flood Of Abortion-Restricting Bills Filed In State Legislatures Following GOP Sweep
Republican state legislators have been able to expedite one of their top policy priorities — restricting access to abortion — given the historic gains they made in last year’s midterm…
Republican candidates face the curse of London
Republican Govs. Chris Christie of New Jersey and Bobby Jindal of Louisiana traveled to the United Kingdom recently to try to burnish their foreign policy credentials. Next up is Wisconsin…
Obama On Death Of Hostage Kayla Mueller: U.S. Won’t Change Ransom Policy
President Barack Obama said Tuesday that U.S. policy of not paying ransoms for citizens captured by terror organizations will not change, despite the death of Kayla Jane Mueller, who was…
Grading Obama: Eight years later
In Springfield, Illinois, Barack Obama flashed a smile, bounded on stage in a long dark coat, and vowed, like his political hero, to “transform a nation” and unleash a wave…
Ruble’s Fall Tests Governor of Russia’s Central Bank
MOSCOW — Elvira S. Nabiullina, the governor of Russia’s central bank, was deep into a speech about her new currency policy when it became clear nobody was paying attention. Her…
How to Prioritize and Save Young Lives
Follow Us: Get the Upshot in your Inbox FEB. 9, 2015 Aaron E. Carroll – Still, we aren’t powerless to address these problems. I spend a fair amount of time…
Economic Plan Is a Quandary for Hillary Clinton’s Campaign
With advice from more than 200 policy experts, Hillary Rodham Clinton is trying to answer what has emerged as a central question of her early presidential campaign strategy: how to…
Drug Czar Michael Botticelli Supports DC’s Ability To Legalize Marijuana
U.S. drug czar Michael Botticelli, though banned from supporting marijuana legalization due to federal law, says that the nation’s capital should be able to implement its own laws using its…
Why Harvard Officially Banned Professor-Student Relationships
Harvard University officially instituted a ban on sexual relationships between professors and undergraduate students this week. The decision followed Harvard’s review of its policy against sexual and gender-based harassment, as…
Harvard Bans Professors From Having Sex With Undergraduate Students
Harvard has formally banned sexual relationships between professors and undergraduate students. The new policy comes on the heels of similar decisions at other institutions. The university says the decision to…