Deaths at Fort Hood

Louise Farr, 11.10.2009

Former west coast editor of W magazine

The military is a world of its own, and its psychologists and psychiatrists are doing nothing less than attempting to upend an entrenched culture.

Get Out of Iraq and Afghanistan and Into the Trade War

Sen. Fritz Hollings, 11.09.2009

Former South Carolina Senator

The political luxury of being against government has got to stop. Government, not productivity, is the comparative advantage in the Trade War.

Fort Hood Shootings: Soldiers Often 'Racialize' to Cope

Aaron Glantz, 11.09.2009

Author, The War Comes Home: Washington's Battle Against America's Veterans

I was surprised that it was a psychiatrist that shot a lot of people. It's no longer surprising to me that returning veterans would kill a bunch of people. But this guy was a psychiatrist who hadn't been deployed.

Give Joe Biden MVP Award This Week on Obama Foreign Policy Team

Steve Clemons, 11.09.2009

Publisher of "The Washington Note"

Joe Biden is turning out to be a very useful problem-solving tool for the president on the international stage.

House Representatives Vote No on Women's Rights, Yes on War

Allison Kilkenny, 11.08.2009

Radio host, writer, allisonkilkenny.com

Many of the Democrats who voted in favor of the Stupak amendment will surely boast they did so because they are the sentinels of human life. Of course, these Democrats are only concerned with protecting certain types of life.

Friday Talking Points [100] -- Whigging Out

Chris Weigant, 11.06.2009

Author, Political Commentator, and Blogger (ChrisWeigant.com)

I will explain that silly subtitle in a moment, but first we've got to delve even deeper into rampant silliness. If such silliness and unseriousness ...

Weekly Foreign Affairs Roundup

Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet, 11.06.2009

Editors of Simple Intelligence

This Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs: Like Him or Not, Karzai's the Man in Afghanistan SI Analysis: After opposition candidate Abdullah Abdulla...

Don't Ask Me About Hasan

Jamal Dajani, 11.08.2009

Senior Director and Producer of Mosaic News, Link TV

Seven messages and counting on my voice mail from different Bay Area reporters, all wanting to know the Muslim community's reaction about the recent heinous killings of Nidal Malik Hasan.

UPDATED: Top Authors, and Editor, in NYT Book Review Ethics Dispute

Greg Mitchell, 11.07.2009

Author, "Why Obama Won"

What's unusual about Mark Danner's letter to the Times concerning the review of his current book is that the Times publishes it this coming Sunday at full 1400-word length.

Rampage At Fort Hood: Should We Be Surprised?

Beau Friedlander, 11.06.2009

Editor-in-Chief, Air America Media

It's unfair to say, categorically, that Nidal Hasan went berserk because we've made the wrong choices. But it's also unfair to continue policies that kill people on both sides of a now pointless conflict.

Twenty Years After the Berlin Wall, the US Leadership is Dramatically Changing

Georges Ugeux, 11.05.2009

Chairman and CEO, Galileo Global Advisors

This weekend, George W. Bush Sr, Helmut Kohl and Mikhail Gorbachev attended a celebration in Berlin: the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Wa...

One Year After Obama's Election: Still Smarter...Than The Alternative

Chris Weigant, 11.05.2009

Author, Political Commentator, and Blogger (ChrisWeigant.com)

What puts this first year in perspective for me is that: Obama may not be smarter than all of us, but he sure is smarter by a long shot than McCain would have been. And that, for now, is enough for me.

GOP Is Withering About His Dithering

Rick Horowitz, 11.04.2009

Satirist and syndicated columnist

If you look before you leap / And worry that you're in too deep / If flag-draped coffins cost you sleep / You're "dithering."

Our National Journey? Get Out A Map

Jeffrey Shaffer, 11.04.2009

While media attention in Iraq and Afghanistan focuses on car bombings and combat casualties, other disturbing events in the region are slipping through the news cycle almost unnoticed.

Admit It: We Don't Really Think About the Troops

Douglas MacKinnon, 11.04.2009

Former press secretary to Sen. Bob Dole

For us, the troops are invisible. They don't exist. They don't count. For the folks I speak with from the military, it really has come down to, "Let us go big or let us come home."

What Obama Is Up Against

Russ Baker, 11.04.2009

Editor, whowhatwhy.com, Author "Family of Secrets" explosive Bush history (2009)

We Americans harbor a quaint belief that a new president takes charge of a government that eagerly awaits his next command. But that's not how things work at the top, especially where "national security" is concerned.

The Best We Can Do

Lance Simmens, 11.04.2009

Has spent the last three decades involved in a variety of public policy issues.

Why is it that it is easier to take the country into war without justification than it is to ensure that every American is entitled to health care?

Obama's Off To A Very Good Start

William Bradley, 11.04.2009

California-based Political Analyst NewWestNotes.com

I think Obama's off to a very good start. But let's not clear space on Mount Rushmore yet. Just as I didn't think he deserved the Nobel, I don't think that Obama's very good start equates to a great presidency.

Iran Protests: Is Obama Staying on Ahmadinejad's Good Side?

Shirin Sadeghi, 11.06.2009

Middle East Consultant and former Journalist for the BBC and Al Jazeera

The Iranians are still coming. In droves. Despite the intermittent media coverage in the United States, Iranians have not yet stopped protesting the...

He Cannot Succeed Without Us: One Year After the Election of President Barack Obama

Rahim Kanani, 11.03.2009

Research Associate, Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, Harvard University

With a litany of crises to deal with, now more than ever, President Obama needs his army of advocates once more to continue the fight for change.

Beyond Tuesday's Results, Republicans Facing Long-Term Decline

Mark Green, 11.02.2009

President of Air America Media

As commentators seem ready to over-interpret tomorrow's election results in three jurisdictions, they should instead consider how four long-term trends show the GOP engaged in political slow-motion suicide.