Sep 24, 2009 -
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Oct 20, 2009 -
Obama’s Moral-Leadership Balloon Crashes
Realpolitik and misplaced faith in diplomacy keeps trumping human rights.
By Mona Charen
The world thinks better of the United States, we are told, because Barack Obama is in the White House. Maybe the world is wrong.
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Sep 28, 2009 -
Family Ties: The Other Bill Clinton
Global VIP's Attend Clinton Global Initiative
By NANCY GIBBS
A daughter seeking her father's attention faces steep competition when he's also the leader of the free world. Teddy Roosevelt's daughter Alice smoked on the White House roof, buried a voodoo doll of the incoming First Lady under the White House lawn, jumped fully clothed into a cruise-ship pool — and persuaded a Congressman to follow. "I can either run the country or I can control Alice," Roosevelt once said.
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Oct 09, 2009 -
Decline Is a Choice
The New Liberalism and the end of American ascendancy.
by Charles Krauthammer
The weathervanes of conventional wisdom are registering another round of angst about America in decline. New theories, old slogans: Imperial overstretch.
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Oct 06, 2009 -
This is an opinion piece that I just happened to find interesting. I know there has been a lot of Obama bashing since Chicago lost the Olympics, but I didn't see the SNL piece until stuff started showing up on the internet. I'm just interested to hear everyone's opinions on the topic.
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Sep 25, 2009 -
By Kathy Ehrich Dowd
Jessica Alba attended the Clinton Global Initiative in New York City on Thursday to promote global education for all children, and told PEOPLE she also relentlessly promotes education at home with 1-year-old daughter Honor Marie. "I am a mother who shoves information down her throat, poor thing," the currently blond actress said with a laugh. "I sing her songs about colors in Spanish and English when I'm cooking.
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Sep 26, 2009 -
she's looking radiant on her way to the Clinton Global Initiative
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Jan 14, 2009 -
More Than a Good FeelingWhy are so many oligarchs, royal families, and special-interest groups giving money to the Clinton Foundation?
By Christopher HitchensPosted Monday, Jan. 12, 2009, at 12:27 PM ET
Clinton speaks at the Clinton Global Initiative in Hong KongHere is a thought experiment that does not take very much thought.
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Feb 17, 2009 -
Clinton Says Don't Blame Him for the Economic Crisis
By S. James Synder, Time Magazine
Given the sweep and severity of today's global economic crisis, it would seem there's plenty of blame to go around. But Bill Clinton doesn't think any of it should fall on his shoulders.
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Mar 09, 2009 -
Obama takes sharp turn on foreign policy
By Bridget Johnson, 03/09/09 (THE HILL)
Lost in the cacophony of the economic crisis is the issue on which the candidate Barack Obama promised to effect some of the most change: foreign policy.
And yet, as Obama’s presidential term has buzzed with bailouts, stimulus, the budget and now healthcare reform, his administration has been steadily pressing forward with its plans to “reboot” relationships and distance itself from goals and tactics of the Bush years.
"Look at general things that have been done," Robert Hunter, NATO ambassador under President Clinton and now a senior adviser at RAND Corp., told The Hill.
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