Poland’s Foreign Minister Radoslaw “Radek” Sikorski, husband of Washington Post editorial writer (and Polish cuisine expert) Anne Applebaum, is a compelling, brilliant, eclectic political intellectual who I admire a great deal.
What can the United States offer its allies? Throughout the Cold War, the answer was simple: the United States guaranteed its allies security from the Soviet Union. But this question – which seems so basic – is difficult to answer today.
Jon Weinberg is a research intern at the New America Foundation/Middle East Task Force.
The comments on my blog have grown increasingly vile — and are not in any way constructive, civil, fair-minded, or policy-oriented. I am turning them off. The primary violators of my policy know who they are. There are rampant ad hominem attacks on TWN now, comments about the personal lives and relations of other commenters….
Just ran into Sarah Stephens of the Center for Democracy in the Americas and some of her groupies on the way to Miami where Stephens is meeting up with Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky and then flying off to Honduras. I’m flying to Havana.
Richard Wolffe wrote in his Obama campaign memoir that the President sees most of his challenges in basketball metaphors and that he’s turned on by nail-biting contests when he, Barack Obama, can switch things up in the contest and come in to make the key decisions and plays that achieve a win.
Watch the latest business video at FOXBusiness.com Former AT&T Broadband CEO Leo Hindery outlines in this seven minute Fox Business clip the severity of America’s jobs crisis and throws some ideas on to the table on what the country could do — particularly when it comes to US government procurement and US domestic investment incentives….
I haven’t seen songwriter and culture diva Allee Willis in about 15 years, though we remain Facebook friends.
It’s just one hurdle overcome. 39 Democratic defections — too many in my book. But the bill passed. Now the Senate, and then reconciliation and more.
Pictures often say a lot — but this one even more. China’s growing confidence is clear in this shot of General Xu Caihou, who serves as the second-highest ranking officer in China’s military. General Xu visited the US Pacific Command at Ft.
