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PHILIP MUDD, former FBI senior adviser: His wife says he's involved in something. You look at him for a week or a month and you can't find anything interesting. There's 72 other active investigations going on in your office. ...

DANIEL LEVY, New America Foundation: Well, the same deal has really been on offer for some time. So I think the decision, ultimately, more had to be taken on the Israeli side. That doesn't mean that both parties didn't climb down a little bit from the ...

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Ray Suarez discusses the implications and legality of his killing with Brian Fishman of The New America Foundation and Juan Carlos Zarate of the Center for Strategic and International Studies. How important is the killing of Awlaki and how significant ...

"The cost of living in Israel is horrendous," said Daniel Levy, a senior fellow and director of the Middle East Policy Initiative at the New America Foundation. "It's hellishly expensive compared to what people earn and the inequality gap has only ...

Ray Suarez discusses the Navy SEAL operation with journalist Nicholas Schmidle, who uncovered new details about the May raid for an article in the latest issue of The New Yorker. ...

Judy Woodruff discusses the challenges that the young country faces with the Pulitzer Center's Rebecca Hamilton, who has covered Sudan for years. She recently reported from there for the NewsHour and The Washington Post. JUDY WOODRUFF: And we turn to ...

This speech is a welcome step toward a sustainable Afghanistan policy, one that realizes that our interests in that country are real, but limited. This speech puts us on a path that aligns our commitment to Afghanistan with these limited interests -- a foreign policy one might almost call "humble."

... Bernanke warned last week that if Congress can't agree to pay for the spending it has already approved, it could cause interest rates to rise and slow any economic recovery. "Even a short suspension of payments on principal or interest on the Treasury's debt obligations could cause severe disruptions in financial markets and the payments system, induce ratings downgrades of U.S. government debt, create fundamental doubts about the creditworthiness of the United States, and damage the special role of the dollar and Treasury securities in global markets in the longer term," he said during a speech at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. ...

Meanwhile, Federal Reserve Board chairman Ben Bernanke warned at a meeting hosted Tuesday by the non-partisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget that failing to raise the debt ceiling before the deadline could cause “severe disruptions” in ...

I spoke this afternoon with Rebecca Hamilton of the Pulitzer Center, reporting from Juba in South Sudan. Rebecca, what is the assessment there of how this talk of an agreement that would stop the dispute in the central region might affect the kind of ...