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Here is what we know after seven days of Change: (1) The new president is aggressively attacking the economic downturn and, though perhaps t...

Deadlines for American troops to leave were set today with a near-unanimous Iraqi Cabinet vote that requires coalition forces to withdraw f...

If the new president is serious about Hillary Clinton for Secretary of State as he follows Lincoln's "team of rivals" approach...

At the Republican Convention, the public desire that dominated the elections two years ago--to get out of Iraq--will be low on the agenda, b...

By the end of last week, John McCain was agreeing with Barack Obama that 16 months would be "a pretty good timetable" for withdra...

There is a Karl Rovian rote to the attempted undermining of a growing Barack Obama-Nouri al-Maliki entente on getting American troops out o...

So endeth Day One. Barack Obama did Afghanistan yesterday, where more Americans are now dying than in Iraq--a photo op with President Hamid...

John McCain is beginning to look like the last guest at the party who doesn't notice that the host is dropping hints that it's time ...

Before his five-day Middle East tour of lame-duck quacking on Israel's 60th birthday and to hold hands with Saudi Arabia's gas-pric...

Amid two tiny wins yesterday--in the Wyoming caucuses and the taking of Dennis Hastert's House seat by an Obama admirer--his supporter...

If journalists are historians in a hurry, bloggers are first responders, dashing to each disaster in search of finding some sense, but ther...

"Americans," a New York Times editorial says today, "need to ask themselves the questions Mr. Bush is refusing to answer: I...

A book I once wrote argued we were being stuffed with information but starved for understanding. David Petraeus and Ryan Crocker have just ...

So this is how the war starts to end, not with a bang but a whimper, as the Hollow Men in Washington quibble, equivocate and compromise over...

If there is a total antithesis of the clichéd Silver Fox, Sen. John Warner took permanent possession of the title today with the most asinin...

He’s at it again. The 2004 Democratic nominee who took himself out of a possible ’08 re-run with a badly told joke is back going for the fu...