(portrait of President Dwight Eisenhower by Mike Hagel; hanging in Senator Chuck Hagel’s private Senate office) Joe Lieberman may lament what he considers to be the shift of the Democratic Party, but he may also want to reflect on how neoconservatives have so dramatically changed and warped the Republican Party in foreign policy.
I have many liberal friends who are not into Grover Norquist — but my policy is to reach out to all parties across the political spectrum to try and balance against the incredibly destructive influence of pugnacious nationalists like John Bolton and neoconservatives like Richard Perle, Douglas Feith, and William Kristol.
Free Videos by Ustream.TV My favorite foreign minister/blogger, David Miliband — who serves as Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom — will be having a conversation today at the New America Foundation with a unique group of Transatlantic Young Leaders who are part of the British Council’s new TN2020 project.
Barack Obama is within 100 delegates of securing the Democratic presidential nomination. Hillary Clinton has promised to stick it through all of the primary races — going at least until June 3rd.
(National Interest editor Justine Rosenthal talks with News Hour with Jim Lehrer Senior Foreign Policy Producer Michael Mosettig at New America) I read many journals, including Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, The American Interest, and others — but I am particularly into The National Interest, the journal that realist Owen Harries ran for years within the…
Some Occidental College students in a “grand strategy course” have just gone through an interesting exercise contemplating and considering solutions to America’s spate of strategic problems, and they have just issued a report on their findings called Rebranding America.
Mike Huckabee spoke to the National Rifle Association on Friday and while on stage, there was noise in the background off stage about which he said, according to CNN: “That was Barack Obama, he just tripped off a chair, he’s getting ready to speak,” said the former Arkansas governor, to audience laughter.
I’m late to this particular debate, but I wanted to highlight that there is an effort underway to dislodge John Yoo, one of the key enablers of America’s torture program, from his seat at UC Berkeley’s Law School.
One of my most active readers and commenters directed me to a blog site, artLife that is art contextualized with commentary. I’ve had a hell of a week — and next week is worse — with some work load demands that have kept me on the run.
(Marlene Cooper Vasilic holds her 24 lb. carp caught and released in Washington DC’s tidal basin) Marlene Cooper Vasilic, Director of Outreach and Special Events for the Center for American Progress, does away with stress by fishing for monster carp in the waterways around Washington, DC.
