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Islamabad
Just emerged from a press conference featuring Hillary Clinton and Pakistan's Foreign Minister Qureishi. The big news here today involves terrorist attacks in Peshawar, to our northwest, and Kabul. There are 86 dead, so far, in the bom...
The usually excellent David Sanger has a very frustrating piece of analysis in the NY Times today. He reports that a public debate has erupted in Iran over whether to accept the west's nuclear non-proliferation offer:
For days now, Iran's le...
Let me be precise here: Fox News peddles a fair amount of hateful crap. Some of it borders on sedition. Much of it is flat out untrue.
But I don't understand why the White House would give such poisonous helium balloons as Glenn Beck and Sean Ha...
Or so the former Senate Republican Leader, a surgeon who has written a new book on health care, told me a few minutes ago in an interview.
Were he still in the Senate, "I would end up voting for it," he said. "As leader, I would take...
The marketing of Chicago's 2016 Olympic bid has hinged considerably on the international celebrity of Barack Obama and his enthusiasm for the project. In a video address to the International Olympic Committee in June, Obama's senior adviser a...
I didn't spend much time reporting, and none writing, about this year's elections. As is often the case these days, they are being overplayed because they offer easily quantifiable results that can be wildly extrapolated. Republicans are crowing a bit...
The Central Intelligence Agency recently agreed to pay $3 million to a former Drug Enforcement Agency official, Richard Horn, whose home was wiretapped in Rangoon, Burma, under apparently illegal conditions. That's one thing--a squabble in a distant...
The tailgating begins today, at noon, when perhaps thousands of conservative and libertarian activists will walk the halls of Congress in protest of health care reform. Conservative YouTube populist Michele Bachmann described the whole idea on with Fox...
Yesterday, when Republicans on the Senate Environment and Publics Works Committee boycotted a mark up of Senators Barbara Boxer and John Kerry's climate change bill, things looked bleak for getting a bipartisan measure to the Senate floor. The...
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