Politics Mar 23 Despite Trump’s tight script at AIPAC, Jewish voters still aren’t sure Before speaking Monday to the most powerful pro-Israel lobby in the country, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (or AIPAC), presidential candidate Donald Trump -- who famously says he’s his own best adviser -- sought counsel from Jewish friends and…
Politics Mar 18 President Trump? For now, the world recoils Foreign ambassadors here in Washington have moved in three months from incredulity to alarm at the prospect of a Donald Trump presidency. “Are American voters really going to choose someone who knows so little about the world, and is so…
Politics Mar 06 Nancy Reagan, her husband’s true ‘Iron Lady’ Though “modern” in the sway she exerted, Nancy Reagan understood she was most effective behind the scenes, and that was just fine with her.
Politics Feb 10 Meet John Kasich, the brash young House Budget Chairman When the Republicans took control of the House of Representatives in the “Gingrich Revolution” of 1994, House Speaker Newt Gingrich put a brash young Congressman from Ohio in charge of delivering on a key agenda item -- coming up with…
World Sep 25 Iran and the U.S have a deal, but don’t expect Rouhani and Obama to shake on it Does the Iran nuclear deal herald the dawn of a new era in U.S.-Iranian relations? PBS NewsHour Chief Foreign Correspondent Margaret Warner met with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani who said there is still a long road to travel.
World May 22 Progress but still no deal in latest round of U.S.-Cuba talks The fourth round of negotiations between the U.S. and Cuba ended today still with no agreement on what it will take to reopen embassies in their respective countries. The talks were conducted in a "respectful and professional climate," said the…
World May 07 Emma Sky’s remarkable rise in Iraq, in a virtually all-male sea of military men British Middle East scholar Emma Sky was an early opponent of the Iraq invasion but nonetheless volunteered to work for the U.S. and British-led Coalition Provisional Authority to stand up a post-Saddam government. She took clothes for 3 months --…
World Dec 23 The tale of a Marine and his war dog torn apart by death The crucial link for an effective war-dog-and-handler team in battle zones is the psychological bond between the two. They depend on each other for their lives. And if their assignment is detecting deadly IEDs -- as it was for many…
World Dec 05 Why ‘Survivor’ trumps ‘The Apprentice’ in Russia Peter Pomerantsev, a Russian-born British author who had been hired to go to Moscow to help create and produce Western-style reality TV shows in the 2000s, shares his observations about why knock-offs of some Western Reality TV hits flopped and…
Nation Nov 11 A veteran’s tough love message to at-risk kids — and fellow vets Do vets coming home from the horrors of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars have something unusual to teach the young people of today? If you listen to West Point graduate and retired Lt. Col. David Oclander, who is now a…