“For Barack Obama, this was a serious misstep,” said Steven Clemons, director of the American strategy program at the New America Foundation. “It's right for the administration to be cautious, but it's extremely bad for him to narrow the peephole into ...
What's needed instead, said Reihan Salam, co-author of “Grand New Party: How Republicans Can Win the Working Class and Save the American Dream,” is “something new — the anti-Obama, anti-Reagan.” Mr. Salam, whose co-author is Ross Douthat, ...
Frida Berrigan, a longtime peace activist who is a senior program associate at the New America Foundation’s arms and security initiative, expressed concerns about whether the Obama administration would be able to balance its promise to respect privacy in cyberspace even as it appeared to be militarizing cybersecurity.
Len Nichols, the director of health policy at the New America Foundation and the co-author of a proposal to level the field through governance and pricing regulations, said that state employee health plans are “proof of concept” that governments can ...
Abdullah Ghulam Rasoul and Said Ali al-Shihri may be the two best arguments for why releasing detainees from Guantánamo Bay poses a real risk to America. Mr. Rasoul, who was transferred to Afghanistan in 2007 and then released by the Kabul government, is now the commander of operations for the Taliban in southern Afghanistan. Mr. Shihri, sent back to his native Saudi Arabia in 2007, is now a leader of Al Qaeda’s affiliate in Yemen.
President Obama's Iran policy has, in all likelihood, already
failed. On its present course, the White House's approach will not stop
Tehran's development of a nuclear fuel program - or, as Iran's
successful test of a medium-range, solid-fuel missile last week
underscored, military capacities of other sorts. It will also not
provide an alternative to continued antagonism between the United
States and Iran - a posture that for 30 years has proved increasingly
damaging to the interests of the United States and its allies in the
Middle East.
IS California too big to fail?
That's the question President Obama and Congress will soon face.
While many states have severe fiscal problems, the depth and unusual
persistence of California's budget problems - the state has run
deficits for most of the decade - has emptied Sacramento's till. On its
current path, California will run short of the cash it needs to pay its
bills in late July.
In addition to Holdren, Loy and Chandler, the US delegation included Taiya Smith, a top aide to former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson; Terry Tamminen, an environmental adviser to California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R); and Jim Green, an adviser to ...
Mr. Obama's predecessors, Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, came of age politically with the American-Israeli viewpoint of the Middle East conflict as their primary tutor, said Daniel Levy, a former Israeli peace negotiator. ...
As someone who drove a clattering old pickup in the slow lane for nine years, I watched with interest earlier this month as House Democrats reached a compromise on “cash for clunkers” legislation that would give people vouchers worth as much as $4,500 to replace their older cars with new ones. But the plan, which would cost $3.5 billion to $4.5 billion, is a huge disappointment; any program that expensive should deliver much better mileage.
