The Center for American Progress and Foreign Policy, an influential journal published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, launched an interesting project a year ago. CAP and FP asked 100 leading American foreign-policy analysts, from both sides of the aisle, for their perspectives on U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East, Iraq, and counter-terrorism. […]
With his announcement last week that he’s stepping down from the White House, Karl Rove has been the center of the political world’s attention (again). The surprising part, however, is that Rove using his time in the spotlight to blast Hillary Clinton quite a bit. Master GOP strategist Karl Rove won’t let up in his […]
I’ve never fully understood how anyone paying attention to current events could seriously believe the Bush White House is committed to an assertive policy of democracy promotion. Last month, David Brooks called it Bush’s “Big Idea,” on which the president cannot, and will not, give up. This has always been rather silly. Bringing God’s gift […]
Sen. Joe Lieberman, not content with two wars, is already picking his preferred target for a third. From his latest op-ed in (where else?) the Wall Street Journal: The United States is at last making significant progress against al Qaeda in Iraq — but the road to victory now requires cutting off al Qaeda’s road […]
Today’s installment of campaign-related news items that wouldn’t generate a post of their own, but may be of interest to political observers: * WaPo: “Democrats and Republicans are mounting a fierce battle to shape voter impressions of Congress during August’s political lull, convinced that they must define the story line of the 2008 congressional election […]
The war in Iraq is obviously the biggest issue on the national policy landscape, but it’s not dominating the news the way it used to. In media terms, Iraq is becoming the incredible shrinking war. While the conflict consumed 15 percent of the space or airtime at many news outlets in the second quarter of […]
I’d be remiss if I didn’t note one of the weekend’s more noteworthy thought pieces — Michael Skube’s 1,200-word take on why he hates blogs. We’ve seen a few of these of late, but Skube, a journalism professor at Elon University, was unusually hostile to the medium. His argument, which is hardly without merit, is […]
Karl Rove hit the morning shows yesterday, reflecting a bit on his White House tenure as it comes to an end. Most of the attention was focused on his latest Plame-related lies, which were certainly interesting, but I found a different exchange just as interesting. Fox News’ Chris Wallace noted the 2002 smear of Max […]
Maybe presidential candidates are less aggressive early in the morning, but yesterday’s 8 a.m. debate in Iowa was surprisingly docile. If the YouTube debate was the event at which the gloves came off, yesterday was time for the gloves to go back on. John Edwards said Hillary Clinton “did a terrific job” in fighting for […]
Anyone who’s seen Fox News knows its on-air personalities offer Republicans in-kind contributions with practically every broadcast. Once in a while, though, they drop the pretense and make the support more direct. It’s no secret that Sean Hannity, the conservative Fox News commentator, has helped to raise Rudy Giuliani’s profile – but now he’s helped […]