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Does Obama Have a Plan B for the Middle East? | TIME

Cecille Isidro — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:11:00 -0500

Daniel Levy, an Israeli peace negotiator at Camp David now based at Washington's New America Foundation, says the reason the Obama Administration fared ...

Pakistan's Other Problem Area: Baluchistan | TIME

Cecille Isidro — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:51:00 -0400

... based on their prior strategic choices," says Sameer Lalwani, a Pakistan watcher at the New America Foundation, a Washington-based think tank. ...

Why a Bombing in Iran Could Be Bad News for Obama | TIME

Cecille Isidro — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 02:43:00 -0400

Former Bush National Security Council officials Flynt Leverett and Hilary Mann Leverett wrote recently in the New York Times of their conversations with ...

Is Congress Giving States Too Much Power on Health-Care Reform? | TIME

Cecille Isidro — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 02:59:00 -0400

"There's no question that lobbyists win cheaper on the state level," says Len Nichols, a health economist at the New America Foundation. ...

Are the Governors Our Best Hope for the Climate? | TIME

Cecille Isidro — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:10:00 -0400

California is where "technology met policy," said Terry Tamminen, the former secretary of the California Environmental Protection Agency and now a senior fellow for climate policy at the New America Foundation. ...

Two Arguments for What to Do in Afghanistan

Erin Drankoski — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 06:37:00 -0400

In August, President Obama laid out the rationale for stepping up the fight in Afghanistan: If left unchecked, the Taliban insurgency will mean an even larger safe haven from which al-Qaeda would plot to kill more Americans. So this is not only a war worth fighting. This is fundamental to the defense of our people. Obamas Af-Pak plan is, in essence, a countersanctuary strategy that denies safe havens to the Taliban and al-Qaeda, with the overriding goal of making America and its allies safer. Under Obama, the Pentagon has already sent a surge of

Did Netanyahu Best Obama in Mideast Peace Tussle? | TIME

Cecille Isidro — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:16:00 -0400

Former Israeli peace negotiator Daniel Levy believes the Administration's pivot on the issue smartly boxed Netanyahu into a negotiating process the Israeli ...

The Pink Recovery | TIME

Cecille Isidro — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 01:12:00 -0400

In Foreign Policy this summer, journalist Reihan Salam predicted that the "macho men's club called finance capitalism" would not survive the present ...

US Spurned Iran Offers to Turn Over Bin Laden's Son | TIME

Cecille Isidro — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 03:04:00 -0400

But terrorism analyst Peter Bergen, author of the book Holy War Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Osama bin Laden, points out that having Saan bin Laden in ...

Why Taxing Insurers' Cadillac Plans May Not Cure Health-Care Reform | TIME

Cecille Isidro — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 03:31:00 -0400

As Len Nichols, director of the Health Policy Program at the non-partisan New America Foundation, says, taxing employees "has been taken off the table in ...