About Laura Vanderkam
Articles By Laura Vanderkam
Maureen Beddis of Alexandria, Virginia, has a lot on her plate. She works 45 to 50 hours a week in a senior-level management job at The Vision Group, a nonprofit that promotes better vision care. She has a one-year-old daughter, Abby, who loves walks in the stroller along the Potomac River. She’s also caring for a six-year-old husky-lab mix named Cyrus, but what really makes her superwoman is that she’s doing all this on her own.
A new form of Catholic education, born of financial necessity, is creating results for at-risk kids. Do the lessons of the Cristo Rey schools hold the key for broad education reform?
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Erdogan To Obama: Strong Horse Or Weak Horse? 18 May 2013, 5:59 am
At a joint press conference at the White House on Thursday, President Barack Obama and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan told us what we already knew: They agree that Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad “needs to go.” The problem, however, lies in the actual playing out of teamwork. Since the start of the civil war [...]Source: AFF Doublethink Online | Elisha Maldonado
Authoritarian Can’t Hide Embarrassing Story In The Internet Age 16 May 2013, 9:41 pm
Horses and powerful rulers have an odd relationship. Roman Emperor Caligula named his horse a consul. More recently, the horse of Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov almost killed him. Wearing traditional national dress Turkmen, the authoritarian leader was thrown from his horse last month in a race held in Turkmenistan. He was apparently briefly knocked unconscious [...]Source: AFF Doublethink Online | Joseph Hammond