We are scholars and analysts who support school choice in some fashion, though we have varied perspectives regarding the optimal nature, extent, and design of choice-based arrangements. Choice's track record so far is promising and provides support for continuing expansion of school choice policies.

Greece's economic situation is dire: it faces a severe recession if it remains in the Euro-zone and it cannot continue servicing its public debt without major sovereign debt restructuring.

A key lesson that should be drawn from the bursting of the U.S. housing market bubble is that the Federal Reserve can ill afford to be derelict in the exercise of its regulatory responsibilities.

A coordinated international response should embrace concrete monetary policy, fiscal policy, and exchange rate policy actions.

Major government intervention is needed to stabilize housing prices and arrest the alarming rate of foreclosure that threatens to add to bank loan losses.

Some nations view income redistribution as a sensible way to ameliorate class tension, but income equalization strategies tend to lower entrepreneurial as well as labor incentives.

In reminding us how very different the present global economic cycle is from previous postwar economic cycles, Martin Wolf makes a number of fine points. However, the one salient point that he does not emphasise is how very compromised are the public finances in many major industrialised economies including the US, the UK, Japan, Italy and Spain.

Campuses need effective policies against genuine harassment. They do not need the divisive gender politics of the AAUW spin sisters.