On the need for Barack Obama to renew his domestic policy focus. This column could easily have been longer, and I know there will be some disagreement over the positions I favor. Here are a few notes and further explanations:
1. On the carbon tax and the inadequacy of cap-and-trade, here’s a terrific paper by Elaine Kamarck putting …
Hmmm. The U.S. has released five Iranian “diplomats” who have been held in Iraq for the past several years. They were taken and held in Erbil at the height of the insurgency, on strong evidence that they were actually Revolutionary Guards operatives involved in the traffic in shaped charges, the extremely powerful late-generation …
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In the early hours of Wednesday morning, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs was asked to define success in international global warming negotiations. “Well, look,” Gibbs said, as he braced himself through a patch of rough turbulence on Air Force One, which was at the moment crossing Europe on its way to Rome. “I think in many ways …
The geniuses over at the Commentary blog, taking a brief time out from their never-ending campaign to announce the Collapse of the House of Obama, have now locked onto the President’s support for the right of Muslim women to wear hejab (that is, a head scarf) and turned it into Obama support for the burqa, an awkward full-body outfit …
From our G8 Photo Essay:
Is it possible that the North Koreans launched a July 4 cyber attack on the US government? If so, what’s the appropriate retaliation? Should we turn the electricity in Pyongyang on and off a few times, if we can do it?
The North Koreans are clearly in the midst of some sort of internal meltdown, probably having to do with a …
My interview with the soon to be ex-Governor of Alaska at her in-laws’ place in Dillingham, Alaska.
Even before most alarm clocks had sounded in New York and Washington, President Obama had already driven in four motorcades, taken two helicopters rides, and flown on his plane from Russia to Italy.
“My wife Michelle. So nice to see you. So good to see you,” Obama had said, upon greeting Italian President Giorgio Napolitano with the …
You’d think they would be returning my calls a little faster up there at the Energy and Commerce Committee. I discovered this reading Ezra Klein’s interview with the Chairman:
Let’s start with the book. I’ve always wondered why legislators write these books. You win reelection with large numbers. You’re busy. You don’t seem
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Barack Obama was introduced Tuesday to the graduating class of Moscow’s New Economic School as someone who had met his wife in a university setting. As a factual slip, the introduction by his Russian host was not that big of a deal. It was, after all, almost true. Obama met his wife, Michelle, at a Chicago law firm, Sidley and Austin, …
The National Security Council may want to start hiring meteorologists, for the future of U.S. foreign policy is apparently written in the skies. First came the greeting between Russian President Dmitri Medvedev Monday, which I summarize in the lead of my Time.com story on the day’s events.
Barack Obama and Dmitri Medvedev, Presidents of
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The former Defense Secretary, who died in his sleep this morning at the age of 93, will always be remembered as the architect of a failed strategy. Here, in a 1995 interview with C-SPAN’s Brian Lamb, Robert McNamara discusses the great mistake that was the Vietnam …