In its latest report, the always-valuable organization Public Agenda has surveyed young Americans to find out what they think about “Life After High School.” Specifically, the organization wanted to know how young people make decisions about what to do after they graduate. Go to college? Get a job?
President Bush’s backing of a bill to toughen standards for more than 190 million state-issued driver’s licenses is igniting a states’-rights tussle. Privacy advocates are already protesting that the measure is a step toward turning driver’s licenses into national ID cards.
Deep Throat, the anonymous, cigarette-smoking scotch drinker who apparently spent an unhealthy amount of time in the early 1970s roaming parking garages in the nation’s capital, is grabbing headlines again.
Iraqis were due to hear the results of their first postwar election on Sunday, two weeks after the vote likely to have sealed new Shi’ite political dominance and marginalized the restive Sunni Arab minority.
President Bush promised to listen to “any good idea” for fixing Social Security on Saturday as he sought to coax reluctant lawmakers into joining his effort to overhaul the retirement program.
Howard Dean, whose high-flying presidential bid collapsed in disarray one year ago, won the post of Democratic chairman on Saturday and promised an aggressive drive to mobilize voters and rebuild the party “from the grass roots up.”