(Northern California coastline; photo: Steve Clemons; click image for a much larger version) I like this picture a lot; taken from my car driving South along Northern California coast a couple of weeks go.
In a long, fascinating interview that Syria President Bashar al-Assad did with the Wall Street Journal’s Jay Solomon in January, Assad spoke extensively about reform.
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy I was off at the movies last night seeing the quite good Water for Elephants when my iPhone text messages began buzzing, buzzing more, and then buzzing again. Buzz. Buzz. Buzz.
President Obama’s recently co-written oped, done with French President Nicolas Sarkozy and British Prime Minister David Cameron, asserted Transatlantic concerns about affairs in Libya — and intentionally or not, proclaimed ownership of the conflict.
When I was getting hooked on the public policy world, one of my on-ramps was the “Fred Friendly Seminar” series initiated decades ago by former CBS President Fred Friendly.
Atarin18 loaded this YouTube video of fellow Marines stationed in Afghanistan lip-synching to Britney Spears’ “Hold it Against Me.” The note that went with the video was touching I thought: Thank you everyone for the support! Sorry i had to take down the? other videos.
At the beginning of the Libya intervention debate, President Obama said he thought America’s involvement would “be limited to days and not weeks.” Now, it seems that we will have to update that ‘hope’ to be “months if not years.
Helene Cooper of the New York Times has published a great what’s up story on the new behind the scenes scramble by the Obama administration, Prime Minister Netanyahu and various Palestinian officials to act as if they have some plan to move the peace process forward — when in fact, most of it is insincere…
The Afghanistan Study Group and the New America Foundation/American Strategy Program invite you and your colleagues to an international public policy discussion on the war in Afghanistan.
Gary Busey is in to Donald Trump. Enjoy.
