When partnering with outside consultants to turn around a school, schools districts must consider how the work is setting schools up for long-term success.

Uncertainty regarding debates over the debt limit still remains. Endgame negotiations are nothing new in Washington, but the circumstances under which they are being played is different than before.

If Obama is serious about wanting to increase domestic oil production, he'll move to open up new areas for exploration, and ask Congress to amend statutes that enable third party lawsuits to tie up drilling permits for years.

Killing the world's most wanted terrorist will not be enough to fundamentally change the nature of the battle against terrorism or eradicate the cancer from Pakistan. That will only be possible once Pakistan itself decides to fundamentally change the way it governs itself and pursues its national interest.

Should IMF-style austerity programmes result in anything like the collapse of the Latvian economy in Europe's periphery, it would render the continued servicing of the periphery's debt well nigh impossible.

The Troubled Asset Relief Program should be run like a business with a goal of returning as much of the involuntary investment as possible to its owners--the taxpayers--along with a reasonable overall profit.

Few recognize just how troubled this government agency really is. When measured against the accounting system used by private mortgage insurers, the FHA is deeply insolvent, with a capital shortfall of tens of billions of dollars. If it were a private firm, state regulators would immediately shut it down. 

The U.S. Navy will have to face new challenges from China and North Korea with fewer resources.