An interesting profile in the Washington Post on the activism of retired US Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. I agree with her that civics education in America needs help. An educated populace is a populace far more able to vote.
Civics education could have helped Rick Perry, as Jon Stewart amusingly presents the “oops” moment during the Republican debate, when the candidate couldn’t remember an agency he wants to eliminate. While errors are going to happen (Perry is only human and we all have those moments of forgetting) and that doesn’t stop one from becoming president, it doesn’t look good for Perry.
The history of “oops,” thanks to the Explainer at Slate.