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September 21, 2008
Los Angeles Times
Gideo Rose writes that "great powers need to be careful lest their dependents embroil them in unnecessary conflicts."
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September 20, 2008
Newsweek
Michael J. Gerson writes that “Predicting the ideal combination of background, skills and values in a successful president—or VP—is no easy task.”
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September 20, 2008
Newsweek
Richard N. Haass writes that "understanding how a candidate thinks about the world gives a better sense of how he is likely to react to both opportunity and crisis."
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September 19, 2008
Washington Post
Michael J. Gerson writes about the Bush Doctrine.
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September 17, 2008
Center for Global Development
This chapter by Stewart Patrick is excerpted from the book The White House and the World: A Global Development Agenda for the Next U.S. President and addresses how the United States must reformulate how it handles failing, failed and war-torn states.
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September 17, 2008
Washington Post
Michael Gerson analyzes, what he considers, Obama's first three major decisions as the democratic presidential candidate and how they will affect his campaign.
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September 14, 2008
The Star-Ledger
Michael Moran writes that, across the world, "America’s electoral rituals are viewed with a mix of amazement, amusement, contempt and hope."
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September 12, 2008
Washington Post
Michael Gerson writes that “deriding Palin’s religion has been a poor strategy” for the Democrats.
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September 9, 2008
Wall Street Journal
Daniel Senor focuses on Sen. Joseph Biden's plan for segregation of Iraq along ethnic and sectarian lines.
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September 8, 2008
Washington Post
Sebastian Mallaby writes that John McCain has caved to his party's anti-tax fanatics. Under a McCain administration, Americans would not have to sacrifice a dime more of their money to a cause larger than themselves.
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September 6, 2008
Washington Post
Michael Gerson writes that John McCain failed to offer creative, interesting or bold policy in his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention.
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September 4, 2008
Washington Post
Michael Gerson writes that John McCain must challenge the Republican party in his convention speech.
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September 3, 2008
Bloomberg.com
In this Bloomberg op-ed, Amity Shlaes writes that the problem with character candidacies is that they are all about damage control, leaving little time to develop economic and foreign policy goals. To prove character, John McCain and Sarah Palin must fight the issues and escape the character topic.
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September-October 2008
American Interest
Steven A. Cook looks at how the next U.S. president can be successful in the Middle East.
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August 30, 2008
Washington Post
Michael Gerson writes that Barack Obama's acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention squandered opportunities to transcend partisan divides.
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August 30, 2008
Newsweek
Michael Gerson writes that John McCain's sense of social justice combines "a religious concern for the weak and oppressed with a military conception of national honor."
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August 28, 2008
Time Magazine
Peter Beinart writes that “of all the disasters that have befallen the Republican Party in recent years, the most cataclysmic may be about to unfold: John McCain might win.”
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August 27, 2008
Washington Post
Michael Gerson says that Barack Obama’s declaration that he will not fill his speech at the Democratic convention with high rhetoric and instead deliver a more “workmanlike speech,” is a mistake. To really capture the unique historical moment that he has been given, Obama should address America’s deeper divisions based in issues such as wealth, segragation and opportunity.
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August 18, 2008
Washington Post
Michael Gerson writes that McCain outperformed Obama at the Warren forum, in the Washington Post.
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August 13, 2008
Washington Post
Barack Obama wants race to stay out of the campaign, instead choosing to focus on issues like the environment, gas prices, the Iraq war and almost anything else. Unfortunately for him, he is not going to get his wish, writes Peter Beinart, pointing to the McCain campaign’s insistence on making race an issue any chance they get.
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