Clinton knew firsthand the value of practice and sacrificed time away from the campaign trail and donor circuit to ensure the most optimal performance.
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For Clinton, Practice Makes Perfect on the Debate Stage
DNC Notebook: Expect the Expected
While there is a massive hot air bubble hovering over Philadelphia, it is only coincidence that this atmospheric phenomenon is happening at the same time as the Democratic National Convention.
Michelle Obama: For girls, a heartbreaking loss — and an opportunity
Ralphina wakes up early each morning, cooks for her family, cares for her younger siblings, and goes to work at a local market — all before she even gets to school. But she still attends class each day, working especially hard in science and math so she can fulfill her dream of becoming a nurse.
Business Values are Democratic Values
This battle for democratic values is also a battle for business values. The concepts that underpin a free society are fundamental to free markets, too: values like transparency, open competition, and the rule of law.
Empowering Adolescent Girls
“One of the most effective ways to meet this goal is to make certain that every single young woman has the ability to go to school, and to receive a quality education in a safe environment. And this is vital not only to prepare a young woman for the workplace, obviously, but for much more than that.” Secretary of State John Kerry
Breaking the Silence on FGM in Egypt: One Activist’s Story
US Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues Catherine Russell talks to Egyptian artist and FGM activist Nada Sabet
Kerry Praises Rout of ISIS in Ramadi
“Working with our Iraqi and Syrian partners, the United States and our Coalition will continue to apply relentless pressure and squeeze this barbaric terrorist group across all lines of effort.”
Samantha Power: Putting ISIS Out of Business
ISIL ruthlessly extracts financial resources from the territory where it operates. … To prevent ISIL from enriching itself, we need every country and its citizens to stop buying what ISIL is selling. This requires unprecedented collective action that the United Nations is uniquely positioned to mobilize.
Will Turkey Revive its Reform Agenda?
A once dynamic society surrounded by unstable neighbors, which benefited from a set of progressive economic, social, and political reforms over the past decade and was ready to assume a leading role on the global stage, Turkey is now visibly going through one of its most challenging periods in the republic’s history.