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Karzai Is About to Introduce a Bill Severely Restricting Afghan Women’s Rights

By | 03.31.09 | 2:33 pm

Speaking at the U.N. conference on Afghanistan today at The Hague, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said:

The status of Afghanistan’s army, the lives of women and girls, the country’s education and health systems are far better today than they were in 2001. So if all of us

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A Window Into Obama’s Foreign Policy

By | 11.14.08 | 6:00 am

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…

Obama to Send Bipartisan Team to G-20 Summit

By | 11.12.08 | 1:19 pm

With news that President-elect Barack Obama will not attend President George W. Bush’s summit on the global financial crisis, onlookers might be forgiven for wondering, “What’s the point?”

Bush is leaving office in two months, and the responsibility for formulating a policy to manage the world’s economic More…