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John Bolton for Secretary of State!
I found this discussion between two veteran watchers of the Washington foreign policy scene -- Heather Hurlburt and Dan Drezner -- pretty frightening.
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I found this discussion between two veteran watchers of the Washington foreign policy scene -- Heather Hurlburt and Dan Drezner -- pretty frightening.
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A Chicago citizen gets an unexpected recommendation
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The president may not be able to win reelection if he doesn't lay out a comprehensive plan for the next four years.
How to spin the president's youthful indiscretions as a window into his political philosophy -- including Obamacare's individual mandate.
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Why this Washington superlobbyist represents all that is wrong with politics today
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He says private drone use is more worrisome. That's because he's never adequately understood the need to restrain the state.
Rep. Trent Franks
Its quirky governance relationship with Congress makes liberal Washington an attractive rhetorical target for pet social conservative causes.
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Michael Fumento is the latest to renounce the "fear, anger, and hatred" that have become hallmarks of one subset of the right.
Reuters
Clinton-era reforms are widely celebrated, but the recession has raised questions about whether they solved problems or just hid them from view.
Reuters
Did a freshman senator understand a future Chief Justice better than the Justice understand himself?
On Hardball, the former presidential candidate finally meets his match in Chris Matthews' similarly childish enthusiasm for history -- and animals.
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Jack Kerouac meets Dale Peterson in an epic, bizarre video.
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After her son Matthew was brutally murdered, Judy Shepard's relentless campaigning on behalf of tolerance led to a major shift in American law.
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Visualizing where the levels of crooks in government are highest
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If Maryland upholds same-sex marriage, it won't just be the first state to back equality with a majority vote.
Reuters
The last week has proved that attacks on private equity hold risks for Obama. But we still don't know if Romney has an effective response.
Hyde Park Herald
In breathlessly reporting that President Obama once dressed in colonial garb, the site does nothing to advance the public interest or conservative governance.
Reuters
Reporters should be slower to leap to conclusions -- including me!
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Pundits say a politician can't run for office successfully while running away from his religious beliefs. The former prime minister offers a surprising counterexample.
Might the military be the next Democratic Party bastion? Perhaps.
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The tool has more horsepower under the hood than might be obvious, but it still depends on volunteers willing to spend lots of their own time.
Howard Berman and Brad Sherman, the subjects of Molly Ball's June Atlantic story, are locked in a fierce political race -- despite their nearly identical views. Here are video clips from a recent showdown.
McCain Institute
Despite some of my foreign policy differences -- like the whole bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb bomb Iran thing -- with Senator John McCain who once told me…
Reuters
After tacking to the right on immigration in the Republican primary, he is now attempting to woo Hispanic voters without mentioning the issue.
White House
What a photo of the president clowning with a five-year-old tells us about race in America today
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In an interview with Time, he struggles to explain exactly how his experience at Bain Capital would help him create jobs.
YouTube
A tongue-in-cheek ad extolls the reasons Californians can be thankful for cigarette companies.
Reuters
A new e-book from an unusually forthright conservative advises the right on how it can avoid the mistakes of 2001 to 2008.
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White House counterterrorism chief John Brennan, who is taking on new authority over strikes, once backed "enhanced-interrogation techniques."
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The former secretary of state criticizes the Republican candidate's contention that Russia is America's No. 1 enemy.
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