Category: General

This is a guest note by Josh Meah, an intern alum with the New America Foundation’s American Strategy Program. He blogs occasionally at The Washington Note.

It’s too bad we won’t see that race in Delaware. I have great respect for Beau Biden, the incumbent Attorney General of Delaware who is politically savvy and policy smart, but he has decided not to run for his father’s former US Senate seat.

I am often asked by readers where they might direct support if they want to help the forces working towards a two state solution in the Israel/Palestine standoff. One option is a new political action committee called “A New Policy PAC“.

Part of the path that America must take to regain leverage in global affairs is addressing the moral lapses that occurred during the last administration — ranging from domestic spying authority to the torture and abuses that took place at Abu Ghraib, Bagram and Guantanamo.

What follows is a powerful snapshot of the moral and political dilemma progressives face today. President Obama and his team bailed out Wall Street, richly depicted in Arnaud de Borchgrave‘s commentary “Bonus Pool Party” below.

Iraq government authorities released word a few hours ago that General Ali Hassan al-Majeed, aka “Chemical Ali” and Saddam Hussein’s cousin, had been executed over the weekend. Ali had received four death sentences from Iraq’s courts.

(Alongside U.S. Army officers, a Civilian Response Corps member from the Office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction & Stabilization, center, participates in discussions with Pashtun tribal leaders in Khost Province, Afghanistan.

While neither the European Union nor Turkey lived up to its end of the EU-accession-process bargain last year, in my view Europe deserves more of the blame for the processes’ steady downward trajectory.

I am in Chestertown, Maryland this morning enjoying a bit of a break from DC — planning a retreat to discuss alternative US policy options in Afghanistan. Chestertown is an old colonial American town with great character and characters.

This is a guest note by Constanze Stelzenmüller, a Senior Transatlantic Fellow at the German Marshall Fund in Berlin and former defense and international security editor at the German weekly, Die Zeit