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Responding to Republican calls for a broad fiscal "dialogue" under the double threat of government shutdown and looming debt ceili...

Here's Obama speaking to * John Harwood of CNBC yesterday about what's at stake in the looming debt ceiling battle: The fight that...

The New York Times editorial board does not like Benjamin Netanyahu, and hopes for success in the United States' upcoming round of negot...

Robert Costa, perhaps the best-sourced reporter on Republican thinking, indicates that warnings in the wake of the 2011 debt ceiling deal  ...

I have been gnashing my teeth at Democrats' preemptive surrender on the spending levels in the ten-week continuing resolution passed by...

I am looking past the pending government shutdown to the looming debt ceiling standoff -- the point in late October when Republicans can, wo...

The U.N. Security Council has agreed on a resolution compelling Syria to give up its chemical weapons for destruction. The headline is tha...

It is doubtless hard for most Americans, and for most people who have not had extended experience of war, to fathom the experience, values, ...

Assad, that is. His chemical weapons. Because he's signed the Chemical Weapons Convention and declared them.  In the LA Times, Shashank ...

I have questioned ( here  and here  and, to a lesser extent,  here ) whether Wall Street Journal coverage of the Affordable Care Act has a ...

I am getting weary of progressives' reflexive head-shaking over Republican " craziness " and mainstream reporters' warnin...

Denouncing the latest Republican round of budget negotiation-by-hostage-taking, Obama said this to the Business Roundtable today: just fl...

Whatever the merits of Ian Lustick's  argument  in last Sunday's Times that the two-state solution for Israel and Palestine is all b...

Greg Sargent has quite rightly called out a bevy of reporters who have slammed Obama for the process by which he arrived at his Syria polic...

Remember the alternative AUMF proposed by Senators Manchin and Heitkampf? The Manchin-Heitkamp resolution * calls for two primary things....

It's hard to deny, as Roger Cohen charges , that Obama and his surrogates have whipsawed the world with mixed signals in the wake of the...

The author of the words below might ask Americans, as the malign plutocrat banker Potter asked George Bailey in It's a Wonderful Life ...

Like almost anyone watching, I would be delighted if a U.S. strike against Syria could be averted by an agreement to place Syrian chemical w...

Just what -- or who -- are the likely targets of a strike in Syria? This exchange in the Senate Foreign Services Committee hearing transcrip...

Dan Dresner thinks so .  In his view, a leak to the effect that Obama does not want the contemplated punitive strike to topple the Assad reg...