Leo Hindery Responds to Rep. Alan Grayson Request on Exec Compensation

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Leo Hindery and CNN Washington DC Bureau Chief David Bohrman at New America Foundation Dinner; photo credit; Sam Sherraden Matt Stoller from Representative Alan Grayson‘s (D-FL-08) office put out a public request for comments about executive compensation related legislation that Congress will soon be considering.

Wadah Khanfar: Pushing Reset on America’s Relationship with Al Jazeera and the Arab World

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After Al Jazeera’s Baghdad headquarters was bombed in April 2003, reports surfaced that George W. Bush had joked about making Al Jazeera a deliberate target of U.S. attacks. Wadah Khanfar was the bureau chief of Al Jazeera’s operations in Baghdad at that time.

Important Investment: Support Judd Legum in Annapolis

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This is a political pitch video with Center for American Progress President and former White House Chief of Staff John Podesta introducing Judd Legum at a fundraiser at a cool restaurant-bar, Local 16, just around the corner from my house. Unfortunately, I was in Berlin and couldn’t be there.

Note to White House: Netanyahu is Obama’s Khrushchev

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I am off to Athens, Greece this evening to meet with some folks and to ponder what Socrates, Plato and Thucydides would say about Barack Obama’s coming showdown with Bibi Netanyahu over East Jerusalem. Netanyahu is very clearly Obama’s Khrushchev.

Guest Post by Jon Weinberg: Short Shelf-Life — Why Innovation Will Undermine the New Iranian Internet Laws

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Jon Weinberg is an intern at the New America Foundation/Middle East Task Force. At first glance, Iran’s new internet law – which stipulates that Iranian internet service providers (ISPs) are required to retain the entirety of their clients’ data for at least three months – appears exceedingly intimidating.

David Frum vs. Daniel Levy on Whether Barack Obama’s America Is An Honest Broker Between Israel and the Arabs

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Check out this debate over at The Economist between Daniel Levy and David Frum on whether “Barack Obama’s America is now an honest broker between Israel and the Arabs.” Given the United States’ long-time alliance with Israel it is a bit ironic that this debate pits Levy on one side suggesting that the U.S.

Martin Walker’s Vacation Celebrates the Absence of Joe Biden Like Mine Banned Obama and Clinton

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(Dordogne where Martin Walker is avoiding Joe Biden and where Bruno, Chief of Police is set; photo credit: Don Frood) My recent vacation mates in Italy — including Helene Cooper who covers the White House for the New York Times and Elise Labott who covers Hillary Clinton and the State Department for CNN — would…