Taliban #2 captured in Pakistan
Mullah Baradar, the Taliban’s top military commander, was captured in Karachi as part of a joint operation by US and Pakistani...
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Bayh-Bayh, Evan
Pete and Patrick have already posted on Evan Bayh’s retirement from the Senate. Yet the responsibility falls on me to employ...
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Andrew Sullivan, anti-Semite? No, but…
Warning: This post describes the intramural wars of current and former staffers at The New Republic. It should not be read by anyone...
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Afghanistan: Gorbachev’s delusional history
William linked earlier to a Gorbachev op-ed, available in translation from worldmeets.us. Based on the lessons of the Soviet...
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Dreams from my mother
We’re snowed in here in Washington DC. The government will shut down tomorrow for a second consecutive day. Tomorrow night,...
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Snow days are evil
Not completely evil. I dialed in to a two-hour conference call from home, which meant I could visit the refrigerator at lunchtime...
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NATO shares battle plans with Taliban
In an old-fashioned war, you don’t tell the enemy where and when you’re going to attack. Counterinsurgency is different....
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What good are the Democrats?
That’s the question in big, bold letters on the cover the new New Republic. What TNR’s editors mean by that is what a lot...
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Questions about Question Time
Nate Silver reviews the nuts and bolts of how Question Time for the President might actually work. If you think it makes sense (I do)...
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Give us Prime Minister Obama!
In a great follow on to President Obama’s engagement with the House GOP, a coalition of writers who span the political spectrum...
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