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- The Presidential 'X Factor' - November 2, 2008
- Looking through the gauzy veil of history, we tend to forget what a mess JFK made of his first year in office. A world of problems awaited him, and his inexperience...
- The Alpha Becomes Average - October 30, 2008
- This idea of special investment opportunities for the very rich created a kind of cult. Institutional Investor in 2003 began publishing Alpha magazine for the hedge...
- Coming to the Table with the Taliban - October 26, 2008
- How the worm turns: A few years ago, it would have been unthinkable that the United States would consider any rapprochement with the Taliban militants who gave...
- A Critical Stage in Iraq - October 22, 2008
- U.S. officials are warning that if the talks remain stalled, there isn't an easy Plan B, such as a new U.N. Security Council resolution to replace the one that...
- Full Speed Ahead For Obama - October 19, 2008
- But leadership is something more mysterious, and it comes in odd packages -- the brooding, depressive Abraham Lincoln; the patrician Franklin Roosevelt; the genial...
- China Vital to Economic Recovery - October 16, 2008
- A Chinese preview of this week's government-funded recapitalization of the banks came in the Hong Kong stock market crash of August 1998. To counter a typhoon of...
- Bush Can Still Build Bridges - October 12, 2008
- The Bush administration (remember them?) has an opportunity to build some bridges in foreign policy that could help the next administration, whoever is elected....
- Global Bankruptcy - October 9, 2008
- The problem is that the sum of all these rational individual decisions, in which each player in the global economy tries to protect his own self-interest, is the...
- Lessons Taught By FDR - October 5, 2008
- The frantic debate over the $700 billion bailout plan has obscured the reality that a new framework for recovery will have to be built by the next administration. The...
- Other Pathways Out of the Financial Crisis - October 2, 2008
- We are beginning a painful process of deleveraging our debt-addicted economy, but that's in many ways beneficial. Martin Wolf noted in The Financial Times that U.S....
- What a Surge Can't Solve in Afghanistan - September 28, 2008
- The case for more troops was made forcefully by the new U.S. commander, Gen. David McKiernan. He said in a briefing in Kabul that to cope with rising violence, he needs...
- The Prime Minister and the President - Washington Post - September 26, 2008
- Keynes' Lessons for Today - September 25, 2008
- The problem with financial markets, Keynes argued, was that investors were periodically seized by an extreme form of what he called "liquidity preference," which...
- Washington's Favorite Cabinet Secretary - September 21, 2008
- Gates has emerged this year as Washington's favorite Cabinet secretary. Both Democrats and Republicans talk of keeping him on in the next administration. Though a...
- Petraeus's Miracle - September 17, 2008
- Petraeus did something astonishing here. It wasn't simply managing the "surge" of U.S. troops, whose precise effects military historians will be debating for years. It...
- Palin Pick Shows a Reckless McCain - September 14, 2008
- McCain made the most important command decision of his life when he chose Sarah Palin as his vice presidential nominee. Two weeks later, it is still puzzling that...
- Caution Over Confrontation - September 9, 2008
- It's a policy, in short, that distills some of the foreign-policy lessons learned at the shank end of the Bush presidency. And its contours, interestingly...
- American Rebels Make a Nice Family - September 7, 2008
- And best of all, these four people are each, in different ways, American rebels. They have all made their way challenging conventional wisdom, telling off the...
- Hot or Cool on Russia? - September 4, 2008
- Listening to McCain, you sensed the beginning of a new Cold War; hearing Obama, you felt a desire to prevent that Cold War from taking root. McCain's advice could...
- McCain Faces Sarkozy's Challenge - August 31, 2008
- And this is McCain's week -- so let's imagine what the GOP candidate would look like with a Sarkozy makeover. Sarkozy succeeded a deeply unpopular Jacques Chirac,...
- A Syrian-Israeli Breakthrough? - August 27, 2008
- The Syrians would like to see a clear signal from the Bush administration that it supports the peace process and that the United States is prepared to join the French...
- Obama and the Get-Even Gang - August 24, 2008
- The partisanship of the congressional leadership has been a virtue for Democrats, up to a point. By being as tough and unyielding as their GOP rivals, they won back...
- The Risk of McCain's Zingers - August 20, 2008
- McCain's 2006 speech made news, as he knew it would. So did an address in Munich the night before from Georgia's emotional president, Mikheil Saakashvili. He recalled...
- Gates Still Going Strong - August 7, 2008
- Amazingly for a defense secretary, Gates has been arguing against the "creeping militarization" of foreign policy. In a speech last month, he urged more funding for the...
- 'Bomb Bomb Iran'? Not Likely. - August 3, 2008
- The administration's wariness of military options is also clear from recent efforts to dissuade Israel from attacking Iranian nuclear facilities. Mike McConnell, the...
- McCain's True Voice - July 31, 2008
- McCain was a wild man in his youth, drinking and chasing woman like a renegade prince of Navy royalty. He is brutally frank in his description of this protracted...
- Iraq's Anti-Colonial History - July 27, 2008
- Maliki and his colleagues are being faithful to Iraqi history -- a factor the administration has too often misunderstood. For Bush, Iraqi history seems to have begun...
- Talking Into the Sunset - July 24, 2008
- So the Syrians have kept up a dialogue even as the Israelis destroyed what they claimed was a secret nuclear reactor. Welcome to the Middle East. The first surprise...
- The View From the Eye of the Storm - July 18, 2008
- And he says he was troubled about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the mortgage giants that had grown fat on an implicit (but never tested) government guarantee to back up...
- Bailing Hard and Getting Soaked - July 16, 2008
- I wish that Treasury and Federal Reserve officials would do a better job of bargaining -- so taxpayers won't have to dig into their pockets again a few months from now...
- An Army That Learns - July 13, 2008
- The Army can't afford this sort of retroactive self-justification. Its commanders and soldiers are the ones who got stuck with the situation in Iraq and had to make it...
- Tehran's Definite 'Maybe' - July 10, 2008
- And even as they talk of diplomacy, the Iranians continue to brandish the weapons of war. The latest example was the test firing Wednesday of a Shahab-3 missile, which...
- Obama: Strength Out of Weakness - July 6, 2008
- But Obama doesn't try to please everyone in these situations. When he decides he's in trouble (and that sometimes takes him awhile), he goes to the heart of the matter...
- Spy Games in Iran - July 2, 2008
- Argues a former intelligence official, "It's a PowerPoint covert-action program. It looks aggressive, but it's not a tied-together, long-term strategy that would make...
- A Surprise From Syria And Israel - Washington Post - June 25, 2008
- Failing Airlines, Failing Government - Washington Post - June 22, 2008
- The Right Iraq Footprint - Washington Post - June 19, 2008
- Fixing Our Covert Branches - Washington Post - June 16, 2008
- A New Economic Agenda for the Dems? - Washington Post - June 12, 2008
- At the Tip of Iran's Spear - Washington Post - June 8, 2008