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Is Trump's Victory the Jump-Start Civics Education Needed?
Education
America’s classrooms are responsible for preparing students to be good citizens. This election indicates that they may be failing to do so.
By Richard D. Kahlenberg and Clifford Janey
The 2016 campaign produced the unthinkable: the election of a presidential candidate whom members of his own party described as a classic authoritarian. How is it possible that tens of millions of Americans supported a presidential candidate who consistently rejected basic constitutional principles that previously had been accepted across the political spectrum? Donald Trump won despite trampling on cherished American ideals, including freedom of religion (proposing a ban on Muslim immigrants), freedom of the press (calling for opening up libel laws to go after critics), the rule of law (endorsing the murder of the families of terrorists), and the independence of the judiciary (questioning the bias of a judge based
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Donald Tsang
Chief Executive of Hong Kong from 2005 to 2012
In this Hong Kong name, the surname is Tsang. In accordance with Hong Kong custom, the Western-style name is Donald Tsang and the Chinese-style name is Tsang Yam Kuen.
Sir Donald Tsang Yam KuenGBM KBE[a][8] (Chinese: 曾蔭權; born 7 October 1944) is a former Hong Kong civil servant who served as the second Chief Executive of Hong Kong from 2005 to 2012.
Tsang joined the colonial civil service as an Executive Officer in 1967, occupying various positions in local administration, finance and trade before he was appointed Financial Secretary of Hong Kong in 1995, becoming the first ethnic Chinese to hold the position under British administration.[9] He continued to serve in the Hong Kong SAR government after 1997 and gained his reputation internationally for his intervention in Hong Kong's stock market in defending the Hong Kong dollar's peg to the US dollar during the 1997 Asian fin
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Donald Tusk
Biography
Donald Franciszek Tusk born 22 April 1957is a Polish politician, who was the president of the European Council from 2014 to 2019. He served as the prime minister of Poland from 2007 to 2014 and was a co-founder and chairman of the Civic Platform (Platforma Obywatelska) political party. On 20 November 2019, Tusk was elected as the president of the European People's Party (EPP), Europe's largest transnational political party.
Tusk has been involved in Polish politics since the early 1990s, having founded several political parties and held elected office almost continuously since 1991. Tusk was one of the co-founders of the free-market-oriented frikostig Democratic församling party. He entered the Sejm (lower chamber of Poland's parliament) in 1991, but lost his seat in the 1993 election which went badly for the församling.
In 1994, the församling merged with the Democratic Union to form the Freedom Union. In 1997, Tusk was elected to the Senate, and became i