james glassman

Peter Baker has the skinny on the hiring of James Glassman, former editor of Roll Call, former publisher of the New Republic, to run the George W. Bush Institute at the University of Dallas. TWI’s Spencer Ackerman talked to Glassman, then exiting the Bush administration as undersecretary of state for public democracy, back in February. [...]

The New York Times identifies the State Department official who urged Twitter to reschedule a site maintenance — and risk disrupting the communications of thousands of Iranian dissidents using the #IranElection hashtag — as a 27-year old guy in the Policy Planning shop named Jared Cohen. Although he’s in the planning shop, this isn’t Cohen’s [...]

I wonder if Kevin Hassett’s economic screeds would get as much attention if they were advertised as columns from the co-author of “Dow 36,000: The New Strategy for Profiting From the Coming Rise in the Stock Market,” the 10-year-old classic of economic buffoonery. For example, this Instapundit link would become:
“Dow 36,000″ Author: Obama Tells [...]

I’ve been hearing what I guess you’d call credible rumors from a number of informed people both inside and outside the Obama administration that Judith McHale, the former president and CEO of the Discovery Channel, is going to be tapped imminently as the next Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy. Al Kamen at The Washington [...]