Michael Hirsh

Michael Hirsh is chief correspondent for National Journal.

How the Afghan Conflict Will Be Decided

How the Afghan Conflict Will Be Decided

A horrific week for U.S. casualties reaffirms President Obama's rush to rely on the Afghan army. But can they handle it? More »

NATO's Plan for Afghanistan Post-2014: A 'Stable Instability'

NATO's Plan for Afghanistan Post-2014: A 'Stable Instability'

The U.S. and its allies are talking about commitments through 2018 and beyond. More »

What We Learned About Benghazi: Incompetence, but No Cover-Up

What We Learned About Benghazi: Incompetence, but No Cover-Up

Moving hearings on Capitol Hill don't turn up any evidence that the Obama Administration deliberately misled Congress or the nation. More »

Mitt Romney Was Right: Russia Is Our Biggest Geopolitical Foe

Mitt Romney Was Right: Russia Is Our Biggest Geopolitical Foe

Obama is meeting with South Korea's president, but it's Kerry's sit-down with Putin that matters. More »

What Margaret Thatcher Can Teach Hillary Clinton

What Margaret Thatcher Can Teach Hillary Clinton

No one ever doubted Thatcher's position--good or bad, right or wrong. Yet it's not always clear any longer where Clinton stands on many issues, beyond women's rights. More »

North Korea: Where the Neocons Are Right

North Korea: Where the Neocons Are Right

When it comes to their political philosophy -- summed up as "It's the regime, stupid" -- the neoconservatives had the Kims pegged. More »

Obama to Israelis: Don't Listen to Bibi

Obama to Israelis: Don't Listen to Bibi

The president spoke over Netanyahu's head during his speech to Israelis today -- just as he has done with the GOP and the American public. More »

North Korea's Nuclear Test: Taunting Obama on the Eve of His SOTU Speech

North Korea's Nuclear Test: Taunting Obama on the Eve of His SOTU Speech

The pariah state's latest nuclear test is an embarrassment for the administration's non-proliferation strategy. More »

Why the Tea Party Will Live On

Why the Tea Party Will Live On

The fiscal-cliff deal shows that government just can't stop getting bigger. More »

Joe Biden: The Most Influential Vice President in History?

Joe Biden: The Most Influential Vice President in History?

From the fiscal cliff to gun control to Afghanistan, Scranton's favorite son has transformed himself from affable gaffer to West Wing powerhouse. More »

Team of Mentors: Biden, Kerry, and Hagel Are Obama's Senate Mafia

Team of Mentors: Biden, Kerry, and Hagel Are Obama's Senate Mafia

The president's emerging second-term national-security team will likely include a longstanding cabal in place before Obama reached Washington. More »

Is Chuck Hagel a Pacifist?

Is Chuck Hagel a Pacifist?

The former GOP senator, a possible Obama nominee to run the Pentagon, is haunted by Vietnam. More »

The Real Libya Story: There Is No Story

The Real Libya Story: There Is No Story

There's plenty of confusion, but still no evidence to suggest the Obama Administration was ever engaged in a Benghazi cover-up. More »

Mitt Romney: The Man Without a Past

Mitt Romney: The Man Without a Past

The candidate doesn't want to talk about Bain Capital and has reversed many of his former political stands. How will voters know who he is? More »

Obama Is Already Blowing His Second Chance at Selling Health-Care Reform

Obama Is Already Blowing His Second Chance at Selling Health-Care Reform

The president could be convincing the public his reforms are needed. Instead, he's trying to skirt the subject entirely. More »

Darrell Issa and House Republicans' Permanent Witch Hunt

Darrell Issa and House Republicans' Permanent Witch Hunt

The Fast and Furious investigation is more light than heat -- and it's part of a pattern that's been repeating itself since the 1990s. More »

How Badly Has Obama Alienated the Middle Class?

How Badly Has Obama Alienated the Middle Class?

With Obamacare and aid to banks, the president helped the poorest and the richest. But there's been little for everyone in between. More »

American Ally, American Adversary: Our Worsening Pakistan Problem

American Ally, American Adversary: Our Worsening Pakistan Problem

For the first time, there may be some hope for Afghanistan. But Pakistan is intent on crushing it, and U.S. officials are paralyzed in finding a solution. More »

Pakistan: The Terror State We Call Our Ally

Pakistan: The Terror State We Call Our Ally

How have U.S.-Pakistan relations slipped so low? More »

In Afghanistan, Warily Watching the U.S. and Fearing Abandonment

In Afghanistan, Warily Watching the U.S. and Fearing Abandonment

Many Afghans worry that American policy will once again give up on their country. More »

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