What alarms me slightly about the new team is that its China experience is so thin. From Jones to Susan Rice to Clinton to Steinberg and Gates, there are glimmers of China experience, but not much.
International Herald Tribune | Al Hunt | Posted 12.24.2008 | Politics
Barack Obama will surround his presidency with powerful men and women. The models of Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan are ...
The Huffington Post | Posted 12.22.2008 | Politics
***Update 12/1, 11 AM*** At a news conference today, Obama introduced his picks of retired Marine Gen. James Jones as White House national security ...
Erica Heller | Posted 12.19.2008 | Media
Madness and stupidity are, alas, not limited to the arena of war. The publishing world seems to also have stepped in it, and will now leave us its grimy footprints to follow on the real Bridge to Nowhere.
Politico | Jonathan Martin | Posted 06.19.2008 | Politics
It may sound smart on the surface, but there is one not-so-small problem: He and McCain are close friends and have been for decades. The two served t...
MSNBC News | Chuck Todd and Domenico Montaro | Posted 06.18.2008 | Politics
So you think you know who's on Obama's veep short list? Well, think again. According to sources on the Hill, Obama veep vetters -- specifically Jim Jo...
Scott Malcomson | Posted 12.27.2008 | Politics