Category: General

I am moderating a chat today as part of a the larger Atlantic Food Summit that will stream live here starting at 1:00 pm EST.

photo credit: Andrew Oros I love the water — and I love Summer. This is from Newport, Rhode Island from the banks of the magnificent grounds of the US Naval War College. This pic, taken by a TWN regular, just moved me. Pics of the day are back. Send yours in. More soon.

Despite some of my foreign policy differences — like the whole bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb bomb Iran thing — with Senator John McCain who once told me he was “the original neoconservative”, I have always greatly, truly admired his patriotism and dedication to trying to get the American political system to operate honestly and in…

One of the benefits of working for high quality operations like the New America Foundation and The Atlantic is that one gets on a permanent learning track — exposed to ideas, controversies, and personalities of consequence just about every other day.

Had a great discussion a few days ago with MSNBC’s Chris Matthews and The Washington Post‘s Eugene Robinson about Mitt Romney’s increasingly Cheney-like foreign policy positions. Chris Matthews discusses Romney foreign policy frame with The Atlantic’s Steve Clemons & The Washington Post’s Eugene Robinson.

The Washington Note has been flirting with on and off commentary of late, more off than on — in part because I have had a new base over at The Atlantic and also because I got so frustrated with the tenor of debate and policy work on Middle East issues, which was a big part…

photo credit: Reuters The anniversary of Osama bin Laden’s death has spiked public interest in the foreign policy positions of President Obama and Mitt Romney — particularly with regards to fighting terrorism and the war in Afghanistan.

On the one year anniversary of President Obama ordering a Navy SEAL team to “go in and get Bin Laden and if he not there, to get out”, the President has given a speech tonight framing what America’s post-Afghanistan game will look like.

Richard Grenell, recently hired by the Mitt Romney for President campaign to serve as the GOP presidential contender’s national security spokesman, has resigned. His statement: I have decided to resign from the Romney campaign as the Foreign Policy and National Security Spokesman.

Right wing, and anti-gay provocateur Bryan Fischer, Director of Issue Analysis for Government and Public Policy at the American Family Association, wrote in early 2011 that Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin and Mike Huckabee were just carrying too much baggage to win the GOP nomination and run for the presidency in 2012.