925 Results for:
Filters

February 22, 2011

Elections and Voting
Museveni "Wins" Uganda’s Elections

Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni addresses a campaign rally at the Makerere university Freedom Square in the capital Kampala, February 14, 2011. (James Akena/Courtesy Reuters) To nobody’s surprise…

Museveni "Wins" Uganda’s Elections
Blog Post by John Campbell Africa in Transition

February 25, 2011

Diplomacy and International Institutions
TWE Remembers: John Foster Dulles

Every day thousands of people fly into and out of Washington’s Dulles International Airport. Few of them think about the man for whom the airport is named, John Foster Dulles. He was born on this day…

Dulles-and-Eisenhower
Blog Post by James M. Lindsay The Water's Edge

March 25, 2011

Defense and Security
Is Operation Odyssey Dawn Constitutional? Obama Versus the Framers

I noted in a post earlier today that President Obama can make a credible legal case—if he were ever forced to make one—that he had all the authority he needed to order Operation Odyssey Dawn. But his…

Independence Hall
Blog Post by James M. Lindsay The Water's Edge

April 8, 2011

Defense and Security
Did Operation Odyssey Dawn Prevent a Libyan Genocide?

People celebrate atop a destroyed tank belonging to forces loyal to Qaddafi after an air strike by coalition forces in Ajdabiyah. (Suhaib Salem/courtesy Reuters) The Senate Foreign Relations Committ…

People celebrate atop a destroyed tank belonging to forces loyal to Qaddafi after an air strike by coalition forces in Ajdabiyah.
Blog Post by James M. Lindsay The Water's Edge

May 4, 2011

TWE Mailbag: Walter Cronkite, the Tet Offensive, and Kent State

Walter Cronkite on television during a presidential debate on September 23, 1976. (Thomas J. O'Halloran/courtesy the Library of Congress) Always underpromise and overdeliver. Never overpromise and u…

Walter Cronkite on television during a presidential debate on September 23, 1976.
Blog Post by James M. Lindsay The Water's Edge