Lugar: Let's Put Health Care On Hold To Deal With Afghanistan
One of President Barack Obama's closest Republican allies in the Senate urged him to put health care reform on the backburner and focus on Afghanistan...
One of President Barack Obama's closest Republican allies in the Senate urged him to put health care reform on the backburner and focus on Afghanistan...
Steve Clemons | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics
It is a remarkable but true fact that the US government cannot stop regular Americans from traveling to North Korea, Burma, Iran, Zimbabwe, Sudan, Congo, or any other complicated place in the world, except Cuba.
Paula Crossfield | Posted 11.22.2009 | Green
Hunger looks on the surface to be the most bipartisan policy issue on our collective plates. We can all agree to the fact that hunger today is a global tragedy. But from there the discussion diverges.
The New Yorker | Jeffrey Toobin | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics
The Obama Administration wanted to send a message with the President's first nomination to a federal court. "There was a real conscious decision to us...
Washington Independent | David Weigel | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
On a 63-35 vote, the Senate has broken the filibuster against Cass Sunstein, President Obama's nominee for Administrator of the White House Office of ...
David Roberts | Posted 09.11.2009 | Green
If we've learned anything from Cash for Clunkers, it's that direct, tangible incentives drive behavior--much more and faster than what economic projections indicate. We've used those incentives for economic stimulus. Now we should put them to work increasing the fuel efficiency of the whole American fleet.
A. Siegel | Posted 09.03.2009 | Green
Those who can afford the upfront costs can afford to be energy inefficient. Those who can't afford the costs of energy inefficiency can't afford the upfront costs.
The Huffington Post | Susan Crile | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics
Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) on Wednesday fired back at a fellow Republican senator who declared southern conservatives the party's biggest problem. Sen...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.17.2009 | Politics
Judge Sonia Sotomayor's nomination to the Supreme Court seemed relatively pre-ordained following four days of somewhat news-less testimony before the ...
The Plum Line | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has consulted with a surprisingly diverse ideological bunch in the course of creating the major foreign policy spee...
The Washington Independant | Posted 07.24.2009 | Politics
On Monday, nearly four months after President Obama nominated Harold Koh to become legal adviser to the State Department, Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) fil...
Posted 07.22.2009 | Politics
***SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO*** WASHINGTON (AP) - A top Republican senator says the United States should still sit down with Iran, despite postelection t...
Thomas de Zengotita | Posted 07.18.2009 | World
The possibility that leaders could emerge in Iran who would be less easy to portray as lunatics has the Neocons worried.
Joe Cirincione | Posted 07.17.2009 | World
Mousavi was always more open to dialogue with the West. If president, his discourse could now include the nuclear program with much less fear of attack.
The Journal Gazette, Fort Wayne, Ind. | Posted 07.16.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON - President Obama merits an "A" so far in his approach to American foreign policy, Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., said Monday. But he cautione...
Politico | Posted 06.26.2009 | Politics
A bit of relevant history: Five Seven current Senate Republicans -- plus Arlen Specter -- voted for Sonia Sotomayor during her highly contested federa...
Jirair Ratevosian | Posted 05.02.2009 | World
The global economic crisis makes foreign assistance an even greater priority when you consider the impact it has on the health of the poor and most marginalized.
Robert Naiman | Posted 05.01.2009 | World
Cutting the president's international aid request this week will undercut President Obama at the very moment he will be trying to argue for a coordinated international response.
Washington Post | Posted 04.30.2009 | World
Roughly a year after Fidel Castro stepped aside and handed much of the responsibility for leading Cuba to his brother Raúl, there is new momentum i...
The National Newspaper | Posted 04.17.2009 | World
WASHINGTON // Pakistan can expect a massive increase in US aid as part of the Obama administration's overall strategy for turning around the war in ne...
New York Times | Posted 04.17.2009 | Politics
President Obama is expected to name his first candidate to an appeals court seat this week, officials said, choosing David F. Hamilton, a highly regar...
Robert Naiman | Posted 04.05.2009 | World
Our failed Colombia policy deserves special attention: it's literally a matter of life and death.
Politico | Posted 03.12.2009 | Politics
My colleague Carol Lee reports that Indiana Republican Senator Dick Lugar won't accompany President Obama to his home state tomorrow, despite an invit...
Steve Clemons | Posted 02.14.2009 | Politics
My first reaction listening to the just one-notch-short-of-a-love-fest hearing was that Norm Coleman's absence has made a huge difference.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.31.2008 | Politics
With President-elect Barack Obama set to announce his foreign policy team on Monday, the names expected to fill out the squad were widely praised on t...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.29.2009 | Politics