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According to Steve Coll, a US journalist with impeccable South Asia and Washington security sources, Musharraf finally began to move the Pakistani army away from sponsoring jihadist groups, but as his own political position deteriorated last year, ...

... expensive functions such as investigative reporting and foreign correspondents as newspapers transition to the Internet, said Steve Coll, former managing editor of The Washington Post and now president of the New America Foundation think tank. ...

Journalist Steve Coll says that India and Pakistan held secret talks over the disputed region of Kashmir in 2006, but that tentative plans for peace have since been abandoned due in part to the political decline ...

The peace initiative is described in an article by investigative journalist Steve Coll, who writes in New Yorker magazine that the two sides had "come to semicolons" in their negotiations when the effort lost steam. The attempt ultimately failed, ...

New Yorker staff writer Steve Coll says that amid the escalating tensions of 2002, India concluded that going to war was not in its best interests. ...

On a more substantive note, Steve Coll of The New Yorker finds that all the focus on economic rescue and stimulus packages shouldn’t obscure some clear ...

Speaking of that infrastructure push, Steve Coll of The New Yorker marvels at how quickly the idea of spending big bucks on infrastructure “has migrated ...

Nina Burleigh The Bin Ladens, by Steve Coll (Penguin). A fascinating panorama of a great family, presented within the context of the 9/11 drama. ...

“There been no unifying strategy,” said Steve Coll, president of the New America Foundation. “NATO operates its own way, every country operates its own way, ...

In 1934, President Franklin Roosevelt asked Frances Perkins, his Secretary of Labor, to draft a plan that might help Americans escape poverty in old age. "Keep it simple," he told her. "So simple that everybody will understand it." On August 14, 1935, after bargaining in Congress, Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act at a White House ceremony. The law "represents a cornerstone in a structure which is being built but is by no means complete," the President said. He continued:

Steve Coll, president and CEO of the New America Foundation, staff writer at the New Yorker Magazine and author of Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001, with Barnett Rubin, director of studies and senior fellow at the Center on International Cooperation at New York University, and Tariq Ali, novelist, historian, one of New Left Review’s editors and the author of The Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power, will talk about what the next preside

The rise and fall of Joe the Plumber as a symbol of the American self-made man's resistance to progressive taxation began on October 12th, outside Toledo, Ohio. As Senator Barack Obama campaigned for the Presidency in a neighborhood of modest homes, a man named Samuel J. (Joe) Wurzelbacher approached. He said that he was getting ready to buy a company that earned about a quarter of a million dollars a year, and he asked if his taxes would rise under Obama's economic plan. The Senator acknowledged that they might. "Nobody likes high taxes," Obama said.