10.19.07: THIS WEEK FROM THE CENTER The Global Common Good Achieving U.S. Moral Leadership New book addresses creating policies based on the global common good. Cutting the Budget for Schools Interactive Map on Bush's Budget How much will schools lose if Bush gets his way with the budget? Tensions Peak in Northern Iraq CTRL-ALT-DELETE in the Middle East Border tensions strengthen the case for a strategic reset in the Middle East. Failing America's Children Congress Fails to Override Veto Commit to covering uninsured children, despite the SCHIP veto.

THE WEEK AHEAD

TECHNOLOGY: Senior Fellow Mark Lloyd testifies to the House Agriculture Subcommittee on Appropriations about the future of rural broadband.

AFRICAN AFFAIRS: Senior Fellow Gayle Smith testifies to the House Judiciary Committee on the Genocide Accountability Act and the Senate Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on African Affairs on Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

ENERGY: Benjamin Goldstein takes a look at California's lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency.

CIVIL LIBERTIES: Winnie Stachelberg on the Employee Non-Discrimination Act.

CLIMATE CHANGE: John D. Podesta and Peter Ogden release their chapter from a forthcoming book on the national security and foreign policy implications of climate change.

SCIENCE PROGRESS: Dan Guttman on the role of private contractors in shaping science policy and health care expert Alan Muney on the promise of electronic medical records.

CAMPUS PROGRESS: Islamofascism: Where did the term come from? How do people use it in the debate over the war on terrorism? And what's Islamofacism Awareness Week all about?

AND MUCH MORE...

POLICY CORNER

Fueling a New Farm Economy: Creating Incentives for Biofuels in Agriculture and Trade Policy

Getting the Facts Straight on Performance Pay in the Proposed Draft of Title II of NCLB

UPCOMING EVENTS

Darfur Now!
October 22

Green Collar Jobs: Building a Just and Sustainable Economy
October 22

Paul Krugman and The Conscience of a Liberal
October 24

CAP IN THE NEWS

Korb on Why the Government, Not Blackwater, Should Have a Monopoly of Force
The Huffington Post

Cirincione on "The Nuclear Catch"
The Pittsburgh
Post-Gazette

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