Barack Obama

Michael Froman ’85 will be nominated as the next U.S. Trade Representative, President Obama announced in a press conference on Thursday.

Froman’s selection, along with the nomination of Commerce-secretary-to-be Penny Prtizker, will complete Obama’s second-term cabinet, according to CNN.

In the wake of the announcement that Osama bin Laden had been killed, expert faculty members have been publicly reacting to the news that the former head of al-Qaida and the mastermind behind the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks is dead.

Politics professor Robert George moderated a panel titled “The Killing of bin Laden: What Does It Mean for America and the World?” before a large audience in Dodds Auditorium on Tuesday.

According to the head of the Democratic Party, we’re not at a crossroads between social democracy and limited government. No, our choice is between Democrats and segregationists.

Eventually we will have to accept that the cuts will impact us all, directly and sometimes painfully, in ways that easily dwarf something as trivial as an attachment to spaceflight.