So much for the “bold and aggressive diplomacy” with Iran that presidential candidate Barack Obama promised.
Eight months after Tehran unleashed a murderous repression of anti-regime protesters — to a mostly timid response from Washington — Team Obama now believes that Iran is becoming a military dictatorship.
So says Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, currently touring the [...]
Editor’s note: Ruben Navarrette Jr. is a member of the San Diego Union-Tribune editorial board, a nationally syndicated columnist and a regular contributor to CNN.com. Read his column here
San Diego, California (CNN) — When I speak to college students, I always push two messages: If you work hard, take risks, leave your comfort zone [...]
Both Sides Ought to Remain More Positive, Flexible
With the formal U.S.-North Korea talks just two weeks away, initial pessimism seems to be giving way to positive expectations.
There were some undeniably promising signs over the weekend: the United States and North Korea have reportedly decided to extend the stay of Ambassador Steven Bosworth in Pyongyang to [...]
Does Sarah Palin suffer from narcissistic personality disorder? Michelle Goldberg puts America’s hottest author on the couch.
All politicians may lie, but not all politicians lie like Sarah Palin. Many people in public life lie to avoid getting caught when they do something wrong; call them “I did not have sex with that woman!” lies. Or [...]
By Tony Blankley
I write this week from New Orleans, where I am participating in the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Inaugural Political Summit, organized by Tom Daschle, Howard Baker and Bob Dole and hosted by Mary Matalin and James Carville.
The conference has assembled about 20 top Democratic and Republican political strategists and operatives and has asked us [...]
by Tina Brown
Losing her life’s dream (or being freed from it?) has pressed the secretary of State’s reset button in an interesting way.
Hillary Clinton has spent her entire career looking bug-eyed with incredulity when an interviewer asks her whatever question she most expects at that moment. Her theatrical bemusement was more convincing than usual on [...]
Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, turned the spotlight on Iran on Sunday, warning that the “world will not wait indefinitely” for an agreement over its nuclear programme….
By Rosa Prince, Political Correspondent
Speaking after talks in London with David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, she welcomed Iran’s agreement earlier this month at to transfer most of [...]
President Barack Obama is taking out a blank sheet of paper this week as he weighs his options in Afghanistan, and Congress stands more than willing to fill it in. The Senate on Sept. 29 is expected to debate amendments to the 2010 defense appropriations bill that are likely to include everything from timelines for [...]
By Amir Mizroch
Everybody is saying no to the American president these days. And it’s not just that they’re saying no, it’s also the way they’re saying no.
The Saudis twice said no to his request for normalization gestures towards Israel (at Barack Obama’s meeting with King Abdullah in Saudi Arabia, and in Washington at meetings with [...]
Excuse me, but when Washington announces a revolutionary change in the way it conducts its relations with the outside world it is normal for the American Secretary of State to be involved in some way.
So where’s Hillary Clinton? We’ve heard a lot from President Barack Obama and Robert Gates, the Defence Secretary, about their lamentable [...]
