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Samantha Power Is in the House

By | 01.30.09 | 11:37 am

The Associated Press is reporting that Samantha Power will get a job on the National Security Council staff. (That’s via Laura Rozen and Matthew Yglesias.) It’s a shame that reporter Matthew Lee focuses on the inane “monster” pseudo-controversy from the primaries, because Power is perhaps the most More…

Maybe Give This Guy a Job? UPDATED BECAUSE HE HAS ONE

By | 01.16.09 | 12:29 pm

Politico’s Ben Smith adds to Laura Rozen’s report on President-elect Barack Obama’s South Asia-themed dinner last week. Ben learns that Pepsi CEO Indra Nooyi was there, along with an important defense adviser to Obama’s presidential campaign, Air Force Maj. Gen. Scott Gration (Ret).

That raises a question: More…

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…