In 1936, the Republican Party nominated for vice president an uncompromising critic of the New Deal named Frank Knox. A veteran of Theodore Roosevelt’s Rough Riders, Knox attained prominence as a Chicago newspaperman, branding Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s economic agenda “alien and un-American” and repeatedly proclaiming its failure.
Four years later, More…
In April 2007, as the United States was enmeshed in two wars, a Brookings Institution scholar and Clinton-era State Dept. official testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in favor of taking military action as a last resort to stop the genocide in Darfur.
“A collective shame” was what Susan More…
Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), the Democratic nominee for president in 2004, has emerged as a leading candidate for secretary of state — should Sen. Barack Obama win the presidency Nov. 4.
Obama campaign advisers declined to comment on the record for this story. Nor would many Democratic foreign-policy experts who More…
Sen. Barack Obama convened a “working group” of foreign policy experts in Virgina today.
Among those attending were longtime Obama confidantes such as Susan Rice, Clintonites such as Richard Holbrooke and Madeleine Albright, and seasoned Democratic policy figures such as former Sens. Sam Nunn and Gary Hart. Several military leaders More…
Last week, Pakistani President Asif Al Zardari chatted up Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin at the United Nations. By all accounts he didn’t even get her number.
Still, Zardari’s game was too much for the leader of the radical Red Mosque, the Islamabad hotbed of extremism that last year got More…
We’re almost underway. If you haven’t read Sridhar’s debate preview, you have like 20 minutes to cram. And since I would only mislead you if I tried to discuss the economy, Mary will also weigh in on the non-foreign policy portions of the program.
Two things I’m looking More…
… well, my Friday plans are then ruined. Thanks, John McCain! But let me do what McCain always implores and consider a cause greater then myself: ask what are the burning questions that the candidates will miss.
The New York Times does a great job rounding up foreign dignitaries More…
CBS has released another clip of Katie Couric’s interview with Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. Tonight’s segment will focus on foreign policy — and judging from this clip, it’s a doozy. Take a look:
Yesterday in Michigan, John McCain reminded Republicans gathered for a town hall chat why he thinks Sarah Palin, his VP pick, is qualified in the foreign policy department: “She’s commander of the Alaskan National Guard,” McCain said.
But GOP Sen. Chuck Hagel (Neb.), a Vietnam veteran and member of More…
Sen. Barack Obama ripped into his Republican rival today for undermining American workers and prioritizing a foreign corporate agenda over domestic manufacturing.
“Ask the workers across this country who have seen their jobs outsourced!” Obama told a gathering of Florida Machinists in a satellite address. “The very companies that shipped More…
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