Cover photo of a young boy in Ghana. Special thanks to Doug Goffus and the Peace Corps for providing us with the images for this article.

Quorum Call By Deborah Kalb Jean and Mel Carnahan had always been a team—in marriage, in parenthood, and in politics. Then fate intervened, in a way that no one could have predicted.

Word of Mouse By Robert Lehrman As politicians use the Internet to change votes and policy, GW’s Michael Cornfield provides the context.

“Ask What You Can Do For Your Country” By Jamie L. Freedman And the responses resounded. Perhaps never in history has a rhetorical question produced such practical results—or touched the lives and hearts of so many people.

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