So he hasn't plugged the leak, and his poll numbers are sagging. Truth is, Obama has exceeded in 18 months what Clinton and Carter achieved in a combined 12 years. I know this is supposed to be Barack Obama's summer of discontent. The oil spill is...
It’s hard to be humble when you are the world’s remaining superpower. This immodesty has caused more than a few problems for the United States since the beginning of the 20th century, when the nation first emerged as a significant player on the world stage...read more
The president has replaced Gen. McChrystal with Gen. Petraeus-but the press is turning a story about policy into a story about penises. What matters isn't what McChrystal said about Obama, it's what he believes about Afghanistan. It's not the...
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Conservatives are buzzing about the prospect of Hillary Clinton challenging Obama in 2012. Peter Beinart on the GOP's desperate wishful thinking. In the summer, when Congress leaves town and political news grows scarce, pundits often get desperate....
The president's Oval Office address on the oil spill sounded more warlike than his speeches on Afghanistan. Peter Beinart on how he's seizing the crisis to push for major energy reform. On the eve of his inauguration as president, Woodrow Wilson...
When the White House announced its National Security Strategy last month, it titled it A Blueprint for Pursuing the World That We Seek. A better title might have been The Fun Is Definitely Over...read more
The Gipper wasn't the warhound his conservative followers would have you think. "Ronald Reagan Was the Ultimate Hawk." Not so much. These days, virtually every time someone on the American right bashes President Barack Obama for kowtowing to dictators or failing to shout that we're at war, they light a votive candle to Ronald Reagan...read more
Maybe the mineral deposits in Afghanistan will make us care about the war again. Peter Beinart on how indifference is letting policymakers do whatever they want, whether it works or not. At least The New York Times remembers that we're at war. On...