Steve will be joining the Ron Reagan Show on Air America tonight at 6:15 PM EST. He will be talking about North Korea’s missile launch and the international reaction to it.
(Photo Credit: Dutchmetal’s photostream) Amjad Atallah co-directs the New America Foundation/Middle East Task Force . President Obama quoted this Turkish aphorism toward the end of his 27 minute speech before the Turkish Parliament. It was, in essence, a summation of his rejection of the policies of the previous eight years.
The pin-pricks, as Brent Scowcroft calls them, have started. North Korea is testing Obama’s resolve and strategic skills.
This is a guest post by Joshua Meah. Meah is a former research intern with the New America Foundation’s “American Strategy Program.” He is writing from Mumbai, India. Matrubhoomi: A Nation Without Women, an Indian film by Manish Jha, is one of the most intense, thought-provoking, heart-wrenching and brutally honest cinematic experiences of my lifetime….
I will be arriving in Berlin on Monday, the 11th of May — and I am appealing to German border authorities to detain me for an hour or so — to make amends for the treatment that a German political leader (and probably many other unnamed victims of passport screening) received at Dulles Airport.
My friend Jon Ward who blogs at Potus Notes for the Washington Times is traveling in the press pool with President Obama in Europe now. He just showed how good a journalist he is.
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Rachel Maddow opens her interesting interview with General Colin Powell who served as Secretary of State during the George W.
This post on the G-20 was originally published on the New American Contract blog, Value Added: After watching Gordon Brown on the live webcast of the London G-20 Summit, it appears that leaders have made some serious headway on one of the two major criteria laid out by Martin Wolf at the New America Foundation…
Reps. Delahunt, Flake, and McGovern (photo credit: The Washington Post) Patrick Doherty directs the U.S.-Cuba 21st Century Policy Initiative at the New America Foundation/American Strategy Program. It’s been a bad few weeks for Senator Menendez. First Senator Lugar releases a report calling for a sea change in U.S.-Cuba relations.
Barack Obama and G-20 leaders will probably emerge from the sessions that start today with (1) commitments on international financial regulatory reform, (2) non-binding commitments to various (mostly modest) stimulus strategies within their own economies, (3) a commitment to significantly enhance the resources of the International Monetary Fund and (4) a joint commitment to “resist…
