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January 28, 2008
Gregory Rodriguez objects to the Clinton campaign's assertion that Latinos historically have not voted for black candidates.
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January 27, 2008
Parag Khanna predicts a continued decline of the U.S. standing in the world under the next administration. He says the United States is losing to the European Union and China in the geopolitical marketplace.
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January 25, 2008
Fortune Magazine looks at economic anxiety among the American public, and considers the effect it may have on U.S. trade policy.
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January 22, 2008
Politico says senators of both parties are relieved to have Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE) back on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, "where he can focus his energies on U.S. relations with Iran, North Korea and Kosovo," after his failed presidential bid.
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January 15, 2008
George Shultz, William Perry, Henry Kissinger and Sam Nunn say the concept of mutually assured destruction has long outlived its usefulness.
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January 7, 2008
The New Yorker looks at Benazir Bhutto's career and the impact of her death on the next president.
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January 6, 2008
Princeton economist Alan S. Blinder on Americans losing faith in globalization, what he calls the "Stop the World, I Want to Get Off" Syndrome.
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January 4, 2008
Strobe Talbott's essay in the Financial Times outlines his foreign policy recommendations for the next president.
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January 4, 2008
Paul Krugman says the wrong foreign policy questions are driving the presidential campaign.
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January 2, 2008
Columbia Journalism Review's Todd Gitlin says reporters should ask Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) about his apparent change of position on a deadline for withdrawal from Iraq.
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January/February 2008
Foreign Policy asked a group of the world's leading thinkers what the next U.S. president should do, in a single policy or gesture, that could improve America's standing in the world.
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December 29, 2007
Norm Kurz says it is "both incredible and shameful to see Iraq transformed into a secondary issue" in the 2008 campaign, and accuses political experts of deciding "that foreign policy issues are simply too complicated for the electorate."
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December 27, 2007
Richard Wolffe looks at the candidates' use of Benazir Bhutto's assassination to promote their own campaigns.
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December 26, 2007
The New York Times examines Hillary Clinton's foreign policy experience as first lady.
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December 18, 2007
Sen. Richard Lugar’s (R-IN) Dec. 18 address at the Brookings Institution on U.S. energy vulnerability and the challenges facing the next president.
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December 17, 2007
Ryan Lizza in the New Yorker writes that "the emergence of Tancredoism" in the immigration debate among frontrunning Republican candidates for president is a surprising development and indicates one more way in which GOP faithful are rejecting George W. Bush's approach to the issue.
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December 14, 2007
"Mike Huckabee is simply not up to the job of president -- nor is he the
nice guy he seems to be," Eugene Robinson argues in the Washington Post.
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December 12, 2007
In the New York Times Magazine, Zev Chafets profiles the former Arkansas governor, exploring how a candidate “with no money, no organization, and no real policy platform or international know-how” has changed the Republican presidential race.
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December 12, 2007
"In charting his vision of a faith-based presidency, Mitt Romney essentially pitted the faithful against the faithless," the IHT's Roger Cohen writes.
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December 6, 2007
This report from the Pew Hispanic Center says a majority of Latino voters are returning to the Democratic Party. Just 23 percent of Latino registered voters align with the Republican Party, the study finds.
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