The Briefing 03-07-14

1. Peggy Noonan: America losing itself in “continuing shift of power from private to public”

America and the Aggressive Left, Wall Street Journal (Peggy Noonan)

Record High in U.S. Say Big Government Greatest Threat, Gallup (Jeffrey M. Jones)

2. Bill de Blasio and others declare war on charter school of New York

Editorial: Not a ‘for the kids’ point of view, Orange County Register (Editorial)

Charters eye closed CPS schools, Chicago Tribune (Noreen S. Ahmed-Ullah)

3. Americans are diagnosing normal boyhood as a disease

Medicating America’s children: Beautiful Minds, The Economist (C.H.)

How We Diagnose and Treat A.D.H.D., Letter to the Editor New York Times (Lynn Hughes)