International Affairs: What Stories We Are Ignoring (and Shouldn’t Be)

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Charles J. Brown (aka Charlie Brown), former chief at Citizens for Global Solutions, has a new foreign policy blog titled Undiplomatic. It’s cool, and I like this post, “Five to Watch,” which highlights five international stories of significance getting no play in the American press.

Birch Bayh: What Leadership Ought to Look Like

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(Senator Birch Bayh and Washington College student Andrew Mehdizadeh) Over the last year, I helped moderate four “Senate Colloquies” along with former Senator Birch Bayh (D-IN) at Washington College, a wonderful liberal arts school founded in 1782 in part by George Washington who sat on the school’s Board of Governors.

Looks Like Bayh?

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Rumors are flying that tomorrow in Indiana, Barack Obama is going to name Senator Evan Bayh (D-IN) as his running mate. Bayh denies it — and says that he doesn’t think anything special is being cooked up tomorrow. This all could be a head fake — or a couple of head fakes.