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Obama’s First 250 Days: Defining a President’s Foreign Policy
Posted: October 7, 2009
The Obama foreign policy era officially began last week in Geneva. William Burns, Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs, met face-to-face with Iranian counterparts, enacting the president’s inaugural promise of engaging with strategic adversaries. Such diplomatic endeavors are only one part of a two-pronged strategy, however, as Washington also pursues military options to defend against ... continue reading...
Neal Gabler: Politics as Religion in America
Posted: October 2, 2009
For decades now, liberals have been agonizing because conservatives seem to win even when polls show that the public generally disagrees with them. In their postmortems, liberals have placed blame on the way they frame their message, or on the right-wing media drumbeat that drowns out everything else, or on the right’s co-opting of the ... continue reading...
Paul Rieckhoff: Congress Gets Paid, Veterans Get Shafted
Posted: October 2, 2009
Every year, Congress needs to pass 12 appropriations bills by October 1st to keep the federal government up and running. If lawmakers don’t meet this deadline, the government operates on temporary funding or shuts down.
And Congress rarely meets this deadline. In fact, 19 out of the last 22 years, Congress has failed to pass the ... continue reading...
Michael B. Mukasey: Intelligence Averts Another Attack
Posted: October 2, 2009
One would think that the arrests last week of Najibullah Zazi, charged with plotting to bomb New York City subways—and of two others charged with planning to blow up buildings in Dallas, Texas, and Springfield, Ill.—would generate support for the intelligence-gathering tools that protect this country from Muslim fanatics. In Mr. Zazi’s case, the government ... continue reading...
Sia Figiel: The Day of the Tsunami
Posted: October 1, 2009
WE awoke on Tuesday morning to the house shaking. Earthquakes in this part of the world usually last for a minute or two. But this time the house shook for five minutes. The children and I left our beds and ran outside to the clearing in front of our house, where our neighbors had already ... continue reading...
John R. Bohrer: Because Bipartisanship Is Dead Until 2011: A Defense of Senate Moderates
Posted: October 1, 2009
After the Republicans got thrashed in the 1964 elections, a GOP senator told columnist Joe Alsop, “That damn Lyndon Johnson hasn’t just grabbed the middle of the road. He’s a bit to the right of center, as well as a bit to the left of center. And with Johnson hogging the whole road — right, ... continue reading...
Alastair Crooke: The power, and threat, of Iran
Posted: October 1, 2009
Writing From Beirut – It was pure drama: The leaders of the United States, Britain and France stepped onto the stage at the G-20 meeting in Pittsburgh last week to unveil Western intelligence that showed Iran had a second nuclear fuel enrichment facility under construction, a fact Iran had declared to the International Atomic ... continue reading...
David Brooks: The Next Culture War
Posted: September 29, 2009
The New York Times’ David Brooks writes about the next culture war.
The United States needs a revival of economic self-restraint to restore its financial values and make it a producer economy again, not a consumer economy.
Read his article at The New York Times.
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