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President Barack Obama had every right to celebrate the first anniversary of Osama bin Laden’s death with U.S. troops in Kabul. No one can doubt the magnitude of that achievement – under his command.
WASHINGTON – Republican moderates are no longer a dying breed. With Tuesday’s defeat of Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana, they are dead.
France is glad to be rid of Nicolas Sarkozy, who lost the country’s presidency in a runoff election this weekend to the Socialist candidate, Francois Hollande. He was ineffective in office and prone to gaffes in public.
Just two days after his inimitably voluble vice president kind of, sort of, probably came out in favor of same-sex marriage, and just a day after his education secretary expressed more succinct, unambiguous support for it, Barack Obama was scheduled to visit New York and cross paths with the governor who is arguably the Democratic standard-bearer for marriage equality, Andrew Cuomo.
With the apparent suicide of NFL great Junior Seau, who played 20 years in the world’s most violently glamorous sport, American football is dying.
For more than four decades at the Center for American Women and Politics, we’ve asked women from both parties to consider running for office.
No screenwriter could have dreamed up the saga of the blind Chinese human-rights lawyer Chen Guangcheng, a story so dramatic that it threatens to upend U.S.-Chinese relations — but offers China’s leaders a unique chance to promote legal reforms.
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David Griggs died in a car wreck while driving drunk. Rodney Culver died in the crash of ValuJet Flight 592. Doug Miller was struck by lightning. Curtis Whitley died of a drug overdose. Chris Mims died of an enlarged heart, Shawn Lee of cardiac arrest and Lew Bush of a heart attack.
Mitt Romney has said that “even Jimmy Carter” would have ordered the Bin Laden raid.
Osama bin Laden’s death a year ago today, at the hands of a Navy SEAL team, revealed that America has been fighting two wars in Afghanistan. One is against al-Qaida, and is clearly in America’s national interest; the other war, to fix Afghanistan, is much more questionable.
MEXICO CITY – A child in Mexico soon learns that corruption is a way of life, and that to get ahead in school, work and politics, “El que no transa, no avanza” – loosely, “You’re not going anywhere if you don’t cheat.”
The blind lawyer Chen Guangcheng climbed over the back wall of his home April 22 – and escaped nearly six years of torture, malnutrition and isolation. During his detention, Chen became a global star, his dark glasses emblematic of the embattled movement of human rights defenders in China.
Two floating bridges across Lake Washington connect Seattle with its eastern suburbs. The roadbeds rest on huge pontoons and sway a bit as you drive across them on a windy day.
It’s almost May. Six months to go until the only presidential poll that counts.
WASHINGTON — The Great Pivot is underway.
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