Category: General

John Judis has a sensible piece out now, pondering what a new US strategy in the Middle East should prioritize.

In a program that ran this morning, I spoke to Michele Kelemen of National Public Radio about Hillary Clinton’s approach to foreign policy and reflected a bit on her policy and personnel choices.

In just about 20 minutes, at 3:30 pm EST and 1:30 pm in New Mexico, Jeff Bingaman (D-NM), Chairman of the Senate Energy Committee, is going to announce on KOAT that he will not run for his Senate seat again.

Peter Orszag, now a new vice-chairman of global banking at Citigroup and former US Office of Management and Budget under Barack Obama, has written a provocative and (with all due respect Peter) wrong-headed Financial Times oped proposing that the way to promote savings among America’s low-income workers is to attach the prospect of winning millions…

This is a guest post by Jeffrey Stacey, an international engagement officer on contract with the Office of the Secretary’s Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization at the U.S. Department of State. Previously Stacey taught Political Science at Tulane University, Fordham University, and Columbia University, where he obtained his Ph.D.

A Scottish deerhound named “Hickory Wind” has taken best-in-show at Westminster. Carson Ranger, a regular at TWN, let us know the news — and yes, we do like all the pups, even the ones who don’t win ribbons and are in the rescue batches out there.

I like Russ Feingold, a lot. His successor in the US Senate actually said in the campaign that he didn’t believe US Senators should speak out publicly on matters of war and peace and should rather communicate their views privately and discreetly to the White House. I’m not kidding. I wrote about it here.

In this segment above, NPR’s White House Correspondent Ari Shapiro spoke with the Carnegie Endowment’s Michelle Dunne and me about the Obama administration’s evolving position on Egypt and the broader Middle East region.

Recently, through no fault of the correspondent but unfortunately through context-removing snips by an editor, I was misquoted in the Wall Street Journal. Various conservatives then grabbed my comment to try and score a gotcha point against President Obama and his team.

OK. The comments are coming back — but they will be moderated.