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One month ago, Anatol Lieven, a professor at the War Studies Department in King's College London, joined a group dinner with Prime Minister Putin. He calls Putin a master politician and predicts he will regain his footing. “It's just the beginning of ...

Jason Peuquet of the non-partisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. “If Congress just went home over the next several years, then our debt path is not nearly as bad,” he stated. But there is a catch. “It is really not realistic that Congress ...

Jason Peuquet, a policy analyst at the New America Foundation says it does not take a large economy to see how interconnected the world has become. "We saw that one smaller country in the EU, Greece, could really almost bring down Europe and threaten ...

Anatol Lieven, a professor at King's College London, is studying the impact of the rise of China on Russia. “Russia, as a whole, would be reduced to something like being the Canada to a Chinese United States," said Lieven. "That's a prospect that the ...

... in-between position, which can be conferred by the General Assembly of the UN and not the Security Council, which is the status of Non-Member state," says Daniel Levy, a Mideast expert with the New America Foundation and former Israeli negotiator. ...

Daniel Levy, Mideast expert with the New America Foundation and former Israeli negotiator, says there is a perception that Washington employs a double-standard in the region. “The problem for America is that if America is seen to ...

Public policy groups, like the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, say, whatever policies or programs Washington adopts, lawmakers need to keep an eye on the main prize: stabilizing and ultimately reducing a national debt that has grown to the ...

Frenzel now co-chairs the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He said, contrary to Republican fears about the federal government's ability to limit spending, budget caps have worked in the past and can work again. ...

Maya McGuineas heads the non-partisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. “The Paul Ryan plan is much more conservative and it focuses all on spending cuts. The Conrad plan is much more progressive and very tax-heavy. ...

Marc Goldwein is policy director of the Washington-based Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. “There has always been politics behind the debt ceiling," said Goldwein. "And it is always the party in power that gets stuck with the vote, ...