Reuters reports: “Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been in discussions with the White House about leaving her job next year to become head of the World Bank, sources familiar with the discussions said Thursday.”
Clinton’s longtime communications aide, Philippe Reines, is denying the story and a senior administration official …
CNBC’s Diana Olick reports today from the exuberant Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) conference in New York City. Apparently the sector is on a tear, despite the double dip in housing, thanks to limited office space and the shift from home-ownership to multi-family rentals.
If Rick Perry gets into the 2012 presidential race, you can bet he will campaign hard on jobs. Though Texas’ unemployment rate has largely tracked the national average throughout the recession, Perry touts himself as a pro-business governor, and regularly makes job-hunting raids to states like California, touting Texas’ tax credit …
Obama met Monday morning in the Situation Room with his national security team for his monthly assessment of the conflicts in Afghanistan and Pakistan. This month’s meeting serves to kick off several weeks of debate over the pace of the draw down of U.S. combat troops in Afghanistan, which Obama has said will start in July.
Joe, …
In the latest issue of the New Yorker, Sy Hersh has a long story on what he says is a discrepancy between the intelligence community’s most recent estimate of Iran’s nuclear goals and the Obama administration’s assessment of and reaction to Iran’s intentions.
The central argument of the story is:
Why should you care that former Serbian military commander Ratko Mladic has been extradited to The Hague, Netherlands, to be tried for war crimes that he and his troops allegedly committed more than 15 years ago?
First, the slaughter. As they arrived at a refugee camp in northern Bosnia in July 1995, Muslim survivors of the fall of …
Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continued their icy relationship in front of the cameras Friday after what the President somewhat ruefully called “prolonged” talks, suggesting that Bibi had delivered one of his trademark multi-part lectures on the requirements of Israeli security. The two were correct and diplomatic, …
I’ve already registered my skepticism that not much will come of Obama’s assertion yesterday that “the borders of Israel and Palestine should be based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps.”
The statement is not, as many are claiming today, a demand for a return to pre-1967 borders: 1967 lines refer at most to the deployment of …
Listening to the commentary, you might think President Obama’s speech on Thursday was an important moment in Middle East history. It is a “hugely important speech,” said Wolf Blitzer on CNN in the run-up; Obama to …
In his much-hyped speech on the Middle East scheduled for Thursday, President Barack Obama will argue that the region’s anti-autocratic uprisings and the death of Osama bin Laden have laid a foundation for democratic and …
It’s some 250 miles from 2613 Dumbarton Street in a quiet corner of Georgetown to the cell blocks at Riker’s Island in New York City, but the psychic distance is much greater. One of the stately Georgian mansions that provide …
President Obama’s Middle East envoy, George Mitchell, is stepping down.
His departure comes at an awkward moment. The peace process in free fall.
