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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!By now many people know that Ron Schiller, the public radio executive who called tea party supporters "seriously racist, racist people," is no longer the NPR Foundation's senior vice president for development. However, Schiller had plans to depart NPR before he made those inflammatory remarks; he'd previously accepted a job with the Aspen Institute as director of its arts program and Harman-Eisner Artist-in-Residence Program. Today the institute announced that Schiller would not take the new position after all. In an e-mail to Poynter's Jim Romenesko, an Aspen spokesman said that "in light ...
The last stop on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's Asian tour this week is Vietnam, where she will discuss among other things an enduring remnant of the war, the after-effects of Agent Orange. The U.S. government belatedly recognized the impact of the deadly defoliant on American troops, but has resisted accepting responsibility for the damage the chemical inflicted on the Vietnamese with birth defects still evident decades after the end of the war. Clinton, who arrives in Vietnam Thursday, is expected to address the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Vietnam to encourage support for a $300 ...
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