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Rosa Brooks, a Georgetown University Law Center professor who served as a Pentagon adviser during the height of the drone strikes, questioned the legality of drone strikes away from active battlefields, saying that the targeted killing policy “is on ...

The panel included Michael M. Crow, president of Arizona State University; Jeff Selingo, senior editor of the Chronicle of Higher Education; Kevin Carey, director of the Education Policy Program of the New American Foundation; Molly Corbett Broad ...

Imagine there's a division in a company that is operating so efficiently and taking up so few administrative resources that it's saving money for the whole firm. The demand for its products is predictable and constant, and customer feedback is overwhelmingly positive. Would anyone close down that department?

Proposition 13 critics such as New America Foundation senior fellow Joe Mathews often blame Brown for hoarding a budget surplus even while a backlash was ...

... Two new books – "Remaking California" and "California Crackup" – catalog the state's civic ills. In a few weeks, Loyola University Law School will sponsor a forum on dysfunction and its cures, called "Rebooting California." ...

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"There's consensus on gimmicks, because it's the least dangerous option – at least for the people in office," said Joe Mathews, a New America Foundation senior fellow and co-author of "California Crackup: How Reform Broke the Golden State and How We Can Fix It." ...

... "People really trust that their schools have their best interest in mind, that they're not going to sell them out," said Stephen Burd, a higher education expert with the New America Foundation think tank. ...

Joe Mathews, a New America Foundation senior fellow, said Schwarzenegger certainly has made missteps. Union leaders lost trust in the governor when he reneged on a school funding deal in 2005. He has used charged rhetoric in the past, dismissing union concerns as belonging to "special interests." ...

Now that Jerry Brown is the "official" Democratic nominee for governor (what a nail-biter that was), Californians are tuning in to figure out what kind of governor he'll be.

They're not getting any answers. And we've known so many Jerry Browns over the decades, it's hard to know who'll show up if he's elected.

I personally hope he'll be the Jerry Brown who called Maurice Lim Miller in the middle of dinner nine years ago to yell at him.