A Tiny Sliver of Good News From Afghanistan
The Taliban have withdrawn from Kunduz:The Taliban announced that they had withdrawn completely from the northern city of Kunduz on Tuesday, ending their first takeover of any Afghan city during the...
View ArticleThe One-Minute Guide to Obama’s Foreign Policy
We who follow U.S. foreign policy, and especially the Middle East, sometimes get asked whether Barack Obama is a community-organizing naïf way out of his depth or a brilliant ideologue who knows...
View ArticleKrauthammer's Take: We Need to Help the Free Syrian Army Topple Assad
Charles Krauthammer dismissed concerns that Syria is turning into a proxy war with Russia, saying tonight on Special Report that America since WWII has fought “a dozen proxy wars with the Russians” and...
View ArticleHillary Backers Say She's The Only True Democxrat
The pre-debate spin before tonight’s Democratic debate included David Brock, the conservative writer from the 1990s who became an enthusiastic left-wing Hillary Clinton backer, appeared on MSNBC to...
View ArticleThirty Minutes In
and CNN is just getting to the first question of the Democratic debate. Ridiculous.
View ArticleHillary: 'I Am a Progressive'
Hillary Clinton, facing questions from Anderson Cooper on the TPP and whether she “will say anything to get elected,” insisted tonight that “I have been consistent over the course of my entire life.”...
View ArticleSanders: America Needs to Look to Denmark to See How ‘Democratic Socialism’...
Asked tonight if he actually expects the American people to elect an avowed socialist as president, Bernie Sanders said yes, and cited Denmark as an example of how “democratic socialism” works. Here’s...
View ArticleSanders Throws Hillary a Lifeline on E-mail Scandal
While Anderson Cooper interrogated Hillary Clinton tonight over her e-mail scandal, Senator Sanders came to her abrupt rescue, offering that the American people were sick of hearing about “your damn...
View ArticleWe, the Terrified
Have a little sympathy for the Sanders set.Following Bernie Sanders around Iowa earlier in the season, I got a pretty good idea of who he is and what he is about: He is a man with a palpable desire to...
View ArticleThe Debate Lesson: America Now Has an Openly Socialist Party
Sure, this batch of candidates sounded like a bunch of loons. They contended socialism is mostly about standing up to the richest one percent and promoting entrepreneurs and small business; climate...
View ArticleClimate Change, Inequality, and Immigration: How Do We Square the Circle?
Allow me to zoom out from tonight’s Democratic Party presidential debate for a moment. If I had to identify the two issues that left-of-center American intellectuals care about most, I’d probably...
View ArticleNR Tweets the Democratic Debate
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View ArticleSomething's Awesome in the State of Denmark
Bernie Sanders’s Denmark love is another reminder that our Democratic friends, who imagine themselves to be worldly cosmopolitans more at ease with sophisticated European ways, don’t actually know a...
View ArticleOn the Debate Stage, Hillary Was Calm, Self-Assured, and a Master of Bluster
For all the talk about Hillary Clinton’s weakness as a candidate, Tuesday’s Democratic debate demonstrated that things could be worse. Hillary Clinton, with more than 25 presidential debates under her...
View ArticleHillary's Night, But What Did You Expect?
With a few hiccups, Hillary dominated. But it was like a top-tier candidate showing up at a under-card debate. Sixty percent of the candidates have no chance and the other major candidate, Bernie...
View ArticleJesse Jackson: Joe Biden ‘More than Likely’ Stays Out of Race after...
Civil rights activist and former Democratic presidential candidate Jesse Jackson shot down the idea of a Joe Biden candidacy Tuesday night, saying the vice president is likely to forgo a run altogether...
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View ArticleClinton Beats Token Opposition
My take on last night:Hillary Clinton faced a moment of real jeopardy in the first Democratic debate. A lot of Democrats have been getting jittery about her poll numbers and her inability to put away...
View ArticleHillary's 'Republicans Are My Enemies' Line Was a Mistake
Asked last night to name “enemies” of which she was “proud,” Hillary Clinton rattled off a list that included “Republicans.”I haven’t seen a great deal of discussion about this in the aftermath of the...
View ArticleHillary and the Four Dwarfs -- and Other Thoughts From the Democratic Debate
1. I’ve been spending this morning trying to think of a word other than “dominating” to describe Hillary’s performance last night. Her opposition was so inept — with three of the candidates looking...
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