Some of the day’s best reads:
- William Galston on innovation and competition: “We’re not investing adequately or strategically in our nation’s future, and we’ll pay a huge price if we don’t change course.”
- NYC Schools Chancellor Joel Klein on charter schools: “For education truly to be the great equalizer requires that all students have access to high-quality schools. By creating options in long underserved neighborhoods, charters are helping to level the playing field.”
- Marc Gunther on Wal-Mart’s decision to reduce carbon emissions from its global supply chain: “[T]he companies that supply WMT — that is, Procter & Gamble, Unilever, Clorox, Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Kraft, General Mills, Sony, Apple, HP, Dell and hundreds more, all of whom must be wondering about their carbon emissions right now — will be asked to make things more efficiently, use less energy, buy more recycled content and the like.”
- Ben Casnocha on culture and entrepreneurship: “The single best reason to be long on the future of the U.S. is it has a culture of entrepreneurship. It was born this way.”
- Financial Times‘ Sheila McNulty on why environmentalists need to support nuclear power: “While everyone would love to think of the future powered on ideal energy sources such as wind and solar, the reality is that these power sources require backup generation. As of now, they only account for a few percentage points of US power supply. They are a long way from reaching the scale and level of sophistication required to power the world. The advantages of nuclear will remain attractive for quite some time. “
